The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially named Asteroid 2006 BT282 as Asteroid Shostak, honoring Dr. Seth Shostak for his contributions to astronomy and science communication. The ...
January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...
These targets will guide observations with current and future facilities, including the James Webb Space Telescope and ...
The Discovery and Futures Lab’s mission is to anticipate and explore humanity’s responses to the discovery of life beyond ...
A team of scientists using the NASA Curiosity rover recently performed the first successful wet-chemistry experiment on Mars, and their paper has just been published in Nature Communications. They ...
SkyMapper functions as an observational infrastructure, a system that links instruments, users, and data streams. Its goal is ...
This week's planetary images took us from the fractured ice of Europa and the shadowed edge of the Moon to a fiery-looking ...
On April 26th, 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union blasted a plume of radioactive debris a half mile into the sky, blanketing Europe. Witnesses described a ...