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New Dolphin Space Program video, on the hard realities of life in space youtube.com/watch?v=bSsbo-…

The demand to use #NASAWebb shows no signs of slowing! For its fifth year, researchers around the world submitted a record-breaking 2,900+ proposals. The types of requests show astronomers are ready to answer even bolder scientific questions: bit.ly/4nYC0LS 🔭 🧪

Applications for the Astrobiology Introductory Course RED 2026 (Rencontres Exobiologiques pour Doctorants) are now open until December 14th! Apply now to attend the school in Le Teich (France), March 15-21, 2026. red-astrobiology.fr/?mc_cid=eb8bb6…

Astronomers conducted a multifaceted study of the exoplanet TrES-1 b and found that its orbit is shifting, possibly due to an unseen companion planet. #scicomm #sciencenews #astronomy #exoplanets sciworthy.com/scientists-obs…

Someday in the future, we may choose to alter ourselves, through genetic engineering and medicine and/or mergers with our technologies, such that we are better equipped to settle on other worlds. bmsis.org/will-we-radica…

[Post 3 of 3] We’re proud to welcome our fourth cohort of early career awardees through the NASA SciAct AGU Affiliate Program! #AGU25 Join us in celebrating these rising stars who are shaping the future of #scicomm and public engagement ✨ @uafairbanks @NewmanU @BlueMarbleSpace

Our newest article on SAGANet from Catherine Maggiori is an exploration of the new paper out by Nozair Khawaja and team on the analysis of ejected ice grains from Enceladus. saganet.org/articles/cassi…

How to select primitive / synthetic replicators based their photocatalysis? Check out our manuscript just published in @NatureCatalysis : nature.com/articles/s4192… @KaiLiu125348 @Ottolab #OoL #Origins #Prebiotic #Evolution

Astronomers observed a distant galaxy with 5 distinct regions, suggesting a complex formation history in the earliest days of the universe. sciworthy.com/how-did-early-…

How often are stars flung out of the center of the Galaxy? Researchers surveyed stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and found they’re only rarely ejected from the Galaxy's center. #astronomy #stars #scicomm #sciencenews sciworthy.com/are-stars-flun…

U.S. Embassy New Zealand - New Zealand Astrobiology Network Astrobiology Celebration astrobiology.com/2025/10/u-s-em… #astrobiology #NewZealand #Aotearoa @usembassynz @BlueMarbleSpace @cosmobiologist @AstrobiologyNZ

One of the most hotly debated topics in the astrobiological community has been whether or not life can exist on Venus – specifically in its cloud layers. #WSW2025 #SpaceWeek #WorldSpaceWeek @BlueMarbleSpace sciencealert.com/50-year-old-da…

Our paper "Space settlement and astrobiology - connections and overlaps" by a @BlueMarbleSpace team has been accepted by Space Policy! Read for free at this link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lv-8yUIs-lX5

I’m thrilled to share Episode 10 of the Interstellar Insights webinar series — “From Stories to Systems: How Awareness and Access Shape the Future.” 🎥 Watch now on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=_T4AcU… @BlueMarbleSpace @GarofaloWX

One more day to submit abstracts for the IAU symposium on Advancing the Search for Technosignatures. The meeting will take place 206 March of 2026. Submit your abstracts now! iaus404.bmsis.org

Abstract submission is now open for our online @IAU_org symposium "Advancing the Search for Technosignatures," 2-6 March 2026, hosted by @BlueMarbleSpace iaus404.bmsis.org

The Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake is now tied for the 6th highest magnitude of observed earthquakes in modern time.

BMSIS scientist, Dr. Graham Lau, will be speaking at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science tomorrow night! #events-5663" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dmns.org/purchase/ticke…

BMSIS visiting scholar Rabeea Rasheed is conducting a survey exploring how analog astronauts experience stress, anxiety, and wellbeing in isolated and confined (ICE) environments. 🛰️ If you’ve participated in analog missions, we’d love to hear from you!

Researchers used data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to study dense columns of stars at the center of 20 nearby galaxies. They found these “galactic bars” formed between 1 and 13 billion years ago. sciworthy.com/scientists-dat…