This RSS news feed maintained by uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 20 UW news releases about Astrobiology. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByAuthorId&departmentID=287&numToShow=20 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2009 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:37:52 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A new mineral, the first to be discovered inside a particle from a comet, has officially been named in honor of UW astronomy professor Donald Brownlee. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42455 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42455 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:22:24 GMT New measurements for three planets outside our solar system indicate their temperatures remain fairly constant -- and blazing hot -- from day to night, even though it is likely one side of each planet always faces its sun and the other is in permanent darkness. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29397 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29397 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers believe it is possible to detect gravitational waves coming from strange wispy structures called cosmic superstrings. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29374 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29374 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:00:00 GMT Astronomers have found evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a dwarf elliptical galaxy about 54 million light years away from the Milky Way Galaxy where Earth resides. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29275 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29275 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:00:00 GMT Evidence from Stardust mission shows there was enough mixing in the early solar system to transport material from the sun's sizzling neighborhood and deposit it in icy deep-space comets. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28836 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28836 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:00:00 GMT A heat-loving archaeon capable of fixing nitrogen at a surprisingly hot 92 degrees Celsius, or 198 Fahrenheit, may represent Earth's earliest lineages of organisms capable of nitrogen fixation, perhaps even preceding the kinds of bacteria today's plants and animals rely on to fix nitrogen. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28838 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28838 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:00:00 GMT New research shows organisms called eukaryotes, ancestors of the animal and plant species present today, existed 50 million to 100 million years before an ice age that created 'Snowball Earth' some 2.3 billion years ago. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24861 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24861 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:00:00 GMT Scientists analyzing recent samples of comet dust have discovered minerals that formed near the sun or other stars, far from where comets formed. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23093 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23093 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:00:00 GMT The Stardust comet sample return canister is opened in Houston, revealing evidence that the mission is "a phenomenal success" http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21947 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21947 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:00:00 GMT Stardust parachutes safely into a Utah desert, capping a historic NASA mission to a comet led by a University of Washington professor. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21858 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21858 Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:00:00 GMT The UW-led mission to capture particles from comet Wild 2 is to return to Earth on Jan. 15. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21550 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21550 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:00:00 GMT A new model offers plausible scenarios for how oxygen came to dominate Earth's atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago, and why it took at least 300 million years after bacterial photosynthesis started producing oxygen in large quantities. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11549 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11549 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT