The UW connection to an amazing astronomical discovery

SEATTLE -- This week's discovery of seven planets around a distant star has a connection right here at the University of Washington.

Hundreds honor 3 astronauts lost in Apollo fire 50 years ago

Moonwalkers and dozens of others who took part in NASA's Apollo program are paying tribute to the three astronauts killed in a fire 50 years ago.

Earth's message to aliens coming to humans soon

It’s been dubbed "music for aliens," but the Voyager golden record, sent into space on NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 in 1977, was as much "a gift to humanity" as it was "a gift from humanity to the cosmos," per a Kickstarter campaign.