Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs […]
Education and Outreach
Posted inAstrobiology (general)
18 PhD Positions And 6 Postdoc Positions In Planetary HabitabilityCollaborative Research Center (CRC) SFB 1759
A new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) SFB 1759 on “Habitability as a fundamental planetary process: Towards a paradigm shift away from our perception of the uniqueness of Earth” funded by […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Career Opportunities, Education and Outreach, Missions & Hardware, People Of Astrobiology, Status Report
Embedding Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the WST Collaboration
The proposed Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is a next-generation telescope facility with a 12-meter primary mirror that may be operational in the 2040s.
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Registrations Open For AbGradEPEC’26
Dear friends of AbGradE, we’re excited to announce that registrations are now open for AbGradEPEC’26, our upcoming event organised in collaboration with the Europlanet Early Career Network (EPEC).
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Education and Outreach, Intelligence & Language, Policy, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures
Updated Rules for Evaluating and Revealing the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The IAA SETI Committee announced today updated rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Citizen Science / Open Science, Education and Outreach, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
NWA Citizen Science Call 2026 (Astrobiology, Origin of life, Biosignatures)
Dear all, We would like to draw your attention to the NWA Citizen Science Call 2026. This call offers citizen collectives the opportunity to investigate a societal question together with […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Career Opportunities, Conferences and Meetings, Education and Outreach, NASA Astrobiology Program, Status Report
AbGradCon 2026 Application Deadline Extended to June 8th, 2026
Applications are open for AbGradCon 2026, taking place September 14–18, 2026, at the University of Arizona in Tucson. AbGradCon welcomes graduate students, early-career postdocs, and recent graduates working in astrobiology […]
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AbGradEPEC 2026 Early Career Event
Early Career Event: AbGradEPEC’26 – 6th September 2026
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Astrobiology (general), Education and Outreach, Journal articles, NASA Astrobiology Program, Status Report
From Collaboration to Curation: Building NASA Astrobiology’s Living Bibliography in SciX
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from SciX blog post By Jenny Koch (SciX Digital Librarian) and Jennifer Lynn Bartlett (SciX Project Scientist for Astrophysics) Keeping track of scientific publications […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Conferences and Meetings, Education and Outreach, Mars, Status Report
Mars And The Earthlings Training School
A training school, organized by the European Astrobiology Institute and us, the Cluster of Excellence “The Martian Mindset“ | University of Bremen, is dedicated to the scientific, ethical, medical, economic, […]