Laboratory for Space Sciences @ Wash U Physics

Lafayette is one of my favorite meteorites.

There was always a mystery surrounding how it was found. Here’s a cool new story on recent insights into the Lafayette find.

Phobos and Deimos look so cool from the surface of Mars. This video of Deimos passing over Jupiter and its four largest moons, taken from Mars Express, is amazing:

From left to right: Europa, Ganymede, Jupiter, Io, and Callisto.

Looks like no meteorites though…

Sad to hear of the passing of David Kilcoyne, a fantastic scientist at the ALS in Berkeley.

New paper related to this important mystery!

I think the answer is GEMS. Yoinks!

Great to see the new JWST image of the Carina nebula on the front page of the NYTimes. A stellar nursery in exquisite detail, I gasped at the live reveal! So cool.

Our WUSTL colleague Paul Byrne explains why we should all be excited about new data from the James Webb Space Telescope. A new dawn for planetary science and astronomy!

Excellent story about one of our distinguished alums!

The first analyses of asteroid Ryugu material is published in Science, featuring our very own Sachiko Amari. Exciting stuff! Oxygen isotopes:

We’re all very excited to announce that Tansu Daylan will be joining us at Wash U in the fall of 2023. Tansu’s expertise in exoplanets, dark matter, and data analysis techniques will complement our existing strengths in cosmochemistry, planetary science, and astrophysics. Great things ahead for space sciences at Wash U!