[EAI] This year marks the 30th anniversary of the death of the renowned astronomer, science communicator and writer Carl Sagan. It is a global opportunity to bring science closer to […]
Carl Sagan
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PJ Harvey Announces New Song “Voyager”
[PJ Harvey] announces ‘Voyager’, her first new music following the release of I Inside the Old Year Dying in 2023. Listen and watch the video, and pre-order the limited edition […]
Posted inImaging & Spectroscopy, Interstellar, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Press Release, Uranus, Venus
Pale Blue Dot Anniversary
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. Earth appears as a tiny speck of light suspended in a […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Conferences and Meetings, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Status Report
2025 Sagan Summer Workshop Silver Jubilee: Exoplanet Demographics
The topic of the 2025 Sagan Summer Workshop will be the “Demographics of Exoplanets” and will address the contribution of each of the major planet-finding techniques to our overall knowledge […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Astronomy & Telescopes, People Of Astrobiology, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures
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 […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Europa, Missions & Hardware, Societal Issues
An Astrobiology Droid Asks And Answers ‘How Many Ways Can You Say Water’?
I have been living with the image in my mind of the Pioneer plaques and Voyager Golden Records heading across the outer solar system and into interstellar space for half […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Intelligence & Language, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures
Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life: Technosignatures
Our first confirmed proof of life beyond Earth might not involve biology at all. It’s possible that we might intercept communication through electromagnetic waves, like radio, or find telescopic evidence […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
A Search For Life On Earth From The Galileo Spacecraft (Carl Sagan et al 1993)
In its December 1990 fly-by of Earth, the Galileo spacecraft found evidence of abundant gaseous oxygen, a widely distributed surface pigment with a sharp absorption edge in the red part […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release
Earth-like Exoplanets Are Unlikely To Be Another ‘Pale Blue Dot’
When searching for Earth-like worlds around other stars, instead of looking for the ‘pale blue dot’ described by Carl Sagan, new research suggests that a hunt for dry, cold ‘pale […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general)
COSMOS Then and Now
The new incarnation of “COSMOS” hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson debuted the other night. Highly anticipated, this new effort seeks to reboot, rekindle, and revitalize the indelible impression that its […]