NASA’s space life sciences research programs have built a long history of helping us explore space safely. Starting with missions such as Skylab and the Space Shuttle Program, and continuing […]
The 2025 summer program for GeneLab for High Schools will be opening online applications in mid-to-late January 2025.
Student interns from the summer 2024 cohort of the Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) attended the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) annual conference in Puerto Rico […]
Astrobiology is the science that seeks to understand the story of life in our universe.
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is accepting applications for the 2025 Exploration Science Summer Intern Program, which will run from May 27 to July 25, 2025, in Houston, Texas.
On Saturday, September 28th, an experiment designed by Genes in Space 2023 contest winner (18) of Hillsborough, California, launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard NASA’s Crew-9 mission. The […]
The SETI Institute is pleased to open the call for applications for the 2025 William J. Welch Postdoctoral Fellowship (WJWPF), focusing on “Engineering the Future of Cosmic Exploration.”
In the spirit of dedication to the growth of young scientists and engineers embodied by Gerald Soffen throughout his life, the Dr. Gerald A. Soffen Memorial Fund for the Advancement […]
RED is a Training School about the “Basics in Astrobiology”. Astrobiology addresses questions related to the origins of life, its evolution, and distribution in the Universe. This school aims to […]
![Example of ICA-based background subtraction results for “R05 v2 rez2 snr3 1em10” scenario from the Quartus Engineering analysis. A 2 × 3 set of subplots is shown where rows 1 and 2 correspond to passbands [425- 522] and [615-800] respectively. Columns 1, 2, and 3 of the plot correspond to the original image, the estimated background, and the residual, respectively. -- astro-ph.IM](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Starshade-Exoplanet-Data-Challenge.png?resize=1200%2C719&ssl=1)
Starshade is one of the technologies that will enable the observation and characterization of small planets around nearby stars through direct imaging.
