Tomasz Zajkowski and colleagues at AGH University are developing a new English-language Master's program tentatively titled "Space Biotechnology", planned to launch in October 2027.
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We are an international community engaged in building a sustainable future and nurturing scientific interest among the public. Our mission is to explore life as a universal phenomenon and empower the next generation of scientists.
Several of our BMS scientists and friends in California took some time out this past weekend to enjoy a hike together on Angel Island, in the San Francisco Bay.
Trying to figure out where in our own solar system advanced alien technologies may be hiding/unseen may be like a comic game of Clue! planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/cosmic-clu...
Cosmic Clue: Where Would Self-Replicating Probes Be Hiding?
Alex Ellery on Solar System Technosignatures of Self-Replicating Probes for IAUS404
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World Space Week 2026 takes place October 4–10 under the theme Rocket Revolution. Learn more and register your space activity at www.worldspaceweek.org.
World Space Week | Celebrate UN-declared World Space Week, 4-10 October annually, the largest space event in the world
Celebrate UN-declared World Space Week, 4-10 October annually, the largest space event in the world
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Our newest post on a talk from the symposium on Advancing the Search for Technosignatures is now available through Planetary Perspectives. planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/hunting-al...
Hunting Alien Lasers in a Planet-Hunter's Archive
Benji Laszlo Fields on Searching the HARPS Archive for Laser Technosignatures for IAUS404
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Are there signs of alien intelligences out there that we can search for now? IAU Symposium 404 brought together 153 researchers from 33 countries to advance the search for technosignatures: detectable evidence of technologies beyond Earth.
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Today we’re delighted to share SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS-MISSION MARSBIO-III by R. Valli Divya. planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/mission-ma...
Mission MarsBio-III
R. Valli Divya's entry for the 2026 AbSciCon Creative Writing Competition
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The Euclid space telescope just spotted the two oldest quasars ever discovered — blazing beacons from when the universe was only 670 million years old. www.cbsnews.com/news/oldest-...
Euclid telescope spots oldest quasars ever discovered, adding to "perplexing" space mystery
Quasars — the brightest objects in the universe — are powered by supermassive black holes at the heart of early galaxies.
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What if the hardest part of finding another civilization isn’t the searching, but the seeing? A technosignature might be too faint for our instruments, deliberately concealed by its makers, or dismissed by a skeptical scientific community even after it’s found.
A new ESO study warns that if satellites in orbit reach ~100,000 in number, then ground-based astronomy could be practically wiped out for humanity. buff.ly/fdTGS63
The growing number of satellites in orbit could soon make telescopes obsolete. 'For astronomy, this would obviously be catastrophic'
"The public has not signed up for having an entirely transformed sky."
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Fifteen Minutes of Moonset and Sunrise Over the Golden Gate Photo by Fredric Walder
Supermoon Path Over Paris at Sunset Photo by Martin Giraud
It's a space rescue! 🚀 A $30M robotic spacecraft just launched to save NASA's Swift gamma-ray observatory from atmospheric reentry. If successful, Link will grapple the 20-year-old telescope and boost it to a higher orbit. www.livescience.com/space/astron...
NASA just launched a bold mission to rescue a falling space telescope before it crashes to Earth
The Swift Observatory is slated to enter Earth's atmosphere later this year, but the Katalyst Space spacecraft aims to boost it higher this summer.
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Aurora Over Causey Reservoir Photo by Samuel Morse
"Nearly 20% of American food waste is due to label confusion, the FDA says. In California, more than 6 million tons of unspoiled food per year ends up in landfills, where organic waste releases more than 40% of the state’s methane emissions, per climate advocates."
Did the milk expire? California bans 'sell by' food labels to cut food waste
California is making food labels less confusing by banning "sell by" dates. The new law starting Wednesday requires manufacturers to use just two labels: "Best if Used By" for peak quality and "Use…
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Synthetic biology continues to grow in leaps and bounds. SpudCell is a new synthetic cell that might allow for rapid advancements in many areas of cell and molecular biology. buff.ly/P9RcbFj
World’s first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle could revolutionize biological engineering
Associate Professor Kate Adamala and her team have built a synthetic cell capable of performing the fundamental functions of life.
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Researchers have used an electrochemical process to drive conversion of wastewater nitrates to ammonia. techxplore.com/news/2026-07...
Ammonia from wastewater: How we're turning a pollutant into fertilizer and clean fuel
Ammonia rarely makes headlines, but much of modern life depends on it. The compound of nitrogen and hydrogen is the key ingredient in the fertilizers that help feed roughly half of the world's…
techxplore.com
ESA’s Euclid mission has unveiled the largest, most detailed visible‑light image yet of the Milky Way’s crowded core of stars. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart
The largest and most detailed photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light is revealed today by the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission. Packed with more than 60 million…
esa.int
This website offers an overview of citizen science projects managed through NASA science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie...
Citizen Science Projects - NASA Science
Through the projects below, sometimes called "citizen science" or "participatory science" projects, volunteers and amateurs have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries.
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The new astrotourism center being developed at AlUla Manara in Saudi Arabia has some intriguing artist's designs. Read more about it here: www.euronews.com/travel/2026/...
In Sovereign Mars, Haqq-Misra argues that settling Mars isn't an escape from Earth's problems; it's a chance to confront them head-on by rethinking how civilizations govern themselves. www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Ma...
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Will we ever view Mars from the surface with our own eyes? This artist’s concept shows a Martian view through a habitat window. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In 1970, a nun wrote to NASA scientist Ernst Stuhlinger asking how he could justify spending billions on a space mission while children starved on Earth. news.lettersofnote.com/p/why-explor...
Why Explore Space?
A NASA scientist responds
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Professor Lynn Margulis of Boston University speaks before an audience of NASA employees in 1984 to explain the Gaia Hypothesis. This 30 minute video was produced by the Lewis Research Center as part of their NASA at Work series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5m1...
Lynn Margulis presents the Gaia Hypothesis at NASA
Professor Lynn Margulis of Boston University speaks before an audience of NASA employees in 1984 to explain the Gaia Hypothesis. This 30 minute video was produced by the Lewis Research Center as part…
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Amritpal Singh Chaddha and Jihua Hao published a new Nature Astronomy comment piece, "Polymeric organics in primitive asteroids and their potential roles in chemical evolution." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Polymeric organics in primitive asteroids and their potential roles in chemical evolution - Nature Astronomy
The returned samples from asteroids Bennu and Ryugu document a remarkably rich organic inventory, spanning from smaller molecules to complex macromolecular materials. This chemical diversity renews…
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It was so amazing getting together some of the team at during the Blue Marble Space Symposium at AbSciCon 2026.
The latest in Planetary Perspectives offers an overview of three of the poster presentations during the symposium on Advancing the Search for Technosignatures (IAUS404). planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/technosign...
Our newest piece from Planetary Perspectives is a review of Rangier Liu’s talk at our symposium on Advancing the Search for Technosignatures.
What can an 18th-century land war teach us about governing Mars? Quite a lot, it turns out.
