Family members, colleagues, and local dignitaries gathered on Friday, Dec. 6, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California for the unveiling of a memorial honoring Ed Stone, best known […]
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ESA Away Team Training With Tricorders
Rosemary Coogan (ESA), Arnaud Prost (ESA astronaut reserve) and Norishige Kanai (JAXA), trainees of ESA PANGAEA course, investigate some deposits, using the microscope associated with the Electronic FieldBook.
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SETI Institute Invites Applications For The 2025 William J. Welch Postdoctoral Fellowship
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.”
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A New Model Calculates The Chances Of Intelligent Life Elsewhere
The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of […]
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ESA PANGEA Away Team Awaiting Beam Up From Tinguaton Crater
ESA PANGAEA course trainees Rosemary Coogan (ESA), Arnaud Prost (ESA astronaut reserve) and Norishige Kanai (JAXA), on the ridge of the Tinguaton crater.
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Jill Tarter to Receive Inaugural Tarter Award for Innovation in the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Renowned astronomer, Dr. Jill Tarter (@jilltarter ), SETI Institute co-founder and pioneering SETI researcher, will be honored with the inaugural Tarter Award for Innovation in the Search for Life Beyond […]
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Astronaut Don Pettit At Work Doing Offworld Science
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit is pictured setting up one of his “Science of Opportunity” experiments aboard the International Space Station.
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Stephen Hawking’s Warning on Contacting Aliens: A Physics Perspective on the Intelligence Trap
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a fascinating and important endeavor, but it raises significant ethical and safety concerns. In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, scientists use knowledge of physics […]
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Gerald A. Soffen Memorial Fund Fall 2024 Travel Grants
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 […]
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Offworld Science: Studying The Main Component Of Our Water World In Microgravity
Astronaut Don Pettit: Science and Art, or Art and Science; related subjects where it really doesn’t matter which comes first. So I have access to a freezer kept at -95 […]