The NASA Astrobiology Program is pleased to announce a paid internship opportunity for summer 2025 for a qualified graduate student or senior undergraduate student with interests at the intersection of […]
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SETI Institute Names Anastasia Yanchilina As The First Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellow
The SETI Institute awarded the first Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina. Yanchilina will focus on distinguishing biosignatures from false positives across space and time. Her research combines […]
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Expanding Space Exploration Training Offworld
The public and commercial space industries are planning longer duration and more distant space missions, including the establishment of a habitable lunar base and crewed missions to Mars. To support […]
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Astrobiology At NASA: Baruch Blumberg Centennial
Editor’s note (Keith Cowing): Barry Blumberg was one cool dude. I was in on one of the first conversations at NASA Ames when his name came up to attend an […]
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Join The University of Arizona Astrobiology Ambassadors
All [University of Arizona] students are invited to attend our first meeting of Astrobiology Ambassadors! Dante Lauretta, author, game designer, and principal investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission, will be speaking […]
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Doing Biology Research In An Offworld Multipurpose Laboratory
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague processes samples of micro-algae at the Harmony module’s maintenance work area aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA SMD ROSES-24 Update: Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research ICAR Step-2 Proposal Due Date Extended
C.20 Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR) seeks proposals focused on ensuring that the NASA Astrobiology community is prepared to respond to the challenge of planning and implementing these missions.
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Water Planet Exploration: The Youngest Pilot Of DSV Alvin
The Wood Holes Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently announced the newest human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin pilot, Kaitlyn Beardshear.
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Video: NASA Open Science Data Repository OSDR Chats Featuring Celebration of 30 Years of Open Science
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 […]
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Sarah Peacock Surveys Stellar Radiation to Hunt for Habitable Worlds
Knowing whether or not a planet elsewhere in the galaxy could potentially be habitable requires knowing a lot about that planet’s sun. Sarah Peacock relies on computer models to assess […]