NASA’s Exoplanet Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) invites postdocs and graduate students currently at US institutions to participate in the inaugural Exoplanet…
VPL Scientist Dr. Ravi Kopparapu (NASA GSFC) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! Dr. Ravi Kopparapu is…
Giada Arney works at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and as part of the VPL team is the Project Deputy…
Diana Windemuth (University of Washington, Advisor: Eric Agol) successfully defended their dissertation for the Dual-Title PhD in Astronomy & Astrobiology…
Are we alone in the universe? How did life arise on our planet? How do we search for life beyond…
VPL Scientist Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra (BMSIS) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! You can watch a recording…
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (University of Washington, Advisor: Victoria Meadows) successfully defended his dissertation for his Dual-Title PhD in Astronomy & Astrobiology…
VPL scientist Dr. Eddie Schwieterman (UCR) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! You can watch a recording…
Owen Lehmer (University of Washington, Advisor: David Catling) successfully defended his dissertation for his Dual-Title PhD in Earth and Space…
Dorian Abbot and postdoctoral fellow Stephanie Olson’s recent publication “Oceanographic Considerations for Exoplanet Life Detection” has been receiving some press…
David Fleming (University of Washington, Advisor: Rory Barnes) successfully defended his dissertation for PhD in Astronomy with focus in Data…
VPL Scientist Dr. Colin Goldblatt (University of Victoria) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! Dr. Colin Goldblatt,…
The inaugural Exoplanets in Our Backyard conference was held at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, TX from February…
VPL graduate student at the University of Washington, Andrew Lincowski, successfully defended his dissertation on Thursday February 27th! Andrew was…
Primary Investigator for the Virtual Planetary Lab research group, Professor Victoria Meadows, gave an invited presentation this past weekend at…
University of Washington graduate student and VPL collaborator Owen Lehmer, was the lead author of a new paper recently published…
VPL co-investigator David Catling (UW) and collaborator Jonathan Toner (UW) recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National…
The NASA Astrobiology Program has announced a bold new structure to mobilize the astrobiology community towards both impacting future NASA…
Graduate Student Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (University of Washington) presented an invited talk on “The Era of Terrestrial Exoplanet Characterization” at the…
The December edition of the journal Astrobiology is focused largely on Hot Springs and features two papers from VPL team…
VPL scientist Aomawa Shields’ recent paper on the Energy Budgets for Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets was featured in a AAS Nova…
UWAB Director and PI for the Virtual Planetary Lab research group, Victoria Meadows, was just announced as the chair of…
New research from VPL Team members Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Andrew Lincowski, and their faculty advisor Dr. Victoria Meadows, recently published in…
In a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Virtual Planetary Lab (VPL) team…
VPL Scientist Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz (Adler Planetarium) was recently featured on the Ask an Astrobiologist program! Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz is…