• The Carbon Connection: From Stars To Life

    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G St NW, DC, United States

    We’re teaming up with NPR ShortWave for a live podcast recording in Washington, D.C.! Hear from leading Carnegie Science researchers, including astrophysicist Madeleine McKenzie, biogeochemist and microbial ecologist Emily Zakem, […]

  • Hayabusa Symposium 2026

    JAXA Sagamihara Campus Conference Hall (Room 1236), 2nd Floor, Research/Administration Building (Bldg. A),3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara,, Kanagawa, Japan

    The Hayabusa Symposium 2026 brings together researchers studying extraterrestrial samples, focusing on Hayabusa, Hayabusa2, OSIRIS-REx, upcoming MMX, and the other future missions like NGSR. With Ryugu and Bennu samples now […]

  • 2nd European Interstellar Symposium

    Venice Venice, Italy

    Hosted by The Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts in association with The Interstellar Research Group and The International Academy of Astronautics. The aim is to bring together a […]

  • AGU annual Meeting 2026

    Moscone Center 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    AGU’s annual meeting, the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists, convenes 25,000+ attendees from 100+ countries to share research, connect, collaborate, and inspire one another. Discover “Where Science Connects” […]

  • Oort Lecture: Our Astrochemical Origins

    Leiden University Leiden, Netherlands

    How did the building blocks of life come into existence, and what do they tell us about the origins of our Solar System? Join us on Tuesday 8 December for […]

  • American Astronomical Society AAS 249th Meeting

    Salt Palace Convention Center 100 S W Temple St, Salt Lake Ci, UT, United States

    The 249th AAS meeting (joint with the Historical Astronomy Division) will be held 10–14 January 2027 in Salt Lake City at the Salt Palace Convention Center.

  • From Gaia to GaiaNIR: Science from Precision Astrometry Across the Universe and Beyond the Extinction Barrier

    Eugenides Planetarium Syggrou Avenue 387 Paleo Faliro Athens 175 64, Athens, Greece

    This conference celebrates the achievements of the MWGaiaDN Doctoral Network, which features PhD projects focused on the science that can be extracted from Gaia DR3 and Gaia DR4. Topics covered are the Milky Way as a galaxy, stars and planets, and Active Galactic Nuclei in the context of reference frames. MWGaiaDN projects also look towards […]

  • International Winter School on Origins of Life WISOL 27

    University of Pavia Viale Taramelli, 12, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Introduction How Life began on Earth? This intriguing question is of capital importance for modern science. From the most recent exploratory missions to ancient philosophy, this fascinating question is puzzling […]

  • The Galactic Journey of the Solar System: Astronomical, Geological, and Paleo-Climatological Perspectives

    MIAPbP Boltzmannstraße 2 85748 Garching, Germany

    As Earth orbits the Sun, the Solar System itself revolves around the center of the Milky Way, moving through a continuously changing Galactic environment. In addition to its mean orbital motion, the Solar System has a peculiar velocity relative to the surrounding gas and stars, causing it to traverse different regions of the interstellar medium […]