(Note: the following text was adapted from a recent press-release from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) in Tokyo, Japan. Both Tony Jia and Jim Cleaves are BMSIS Scientists and researchers at ELSI. The original text of the press release can be found here and the peer-reviewed research article can be found here, as well as through the reference below) “Before life began on Earth, the environment likely contained a massive number of chemicals that reacted with each other more or […]

Scientists have reproduced in the lab how the ingredients for life could have formed deep in the ocean 4 billion years ago. The results of the new study offer clues to how life started on Earth and where else in the cosmos we might find it. Astrobiologist Laurie Barge [a Scientist with BMSIS] and her team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are working to recognize life on other planets by studying the origins of life here on […]

Blue Marble Space Institute of Science was honored to recently support an International Conference on Astrobiology organized by Progressive Education Society’s Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce in Pune, India. This conference, also supported by Savitribai Phule Pune University and ISRO-SPPU Space Technology Cell, took place on the 15th and 16th of December, 2018. 116 participants took part in the conference, with over 80 students and 30 teachers. There were twelve students who also participated in a Science Communication […]

BMSIS Young Scientist Jennifer Moreno (interning with BMSIS Scientist Dr. Andro Rios) recently had the opportunity to share her knowledge of chemistry, meteorites, the origin(s) of life, and ethics in science with students at St. Patrick – St. Vincent Catholic High School in Vallejo, California, USA! She spoke to three classes of chemistry students (~20-30 students per class), all of whom were sitting in the same chemistry classroom as she had when she herself was a student at St. Patrick […]

Next summer (10-13 June) in Tällberg, Sweden, the Nordic Astrobiology Network, Stockholm University, Lund University, and the European Astrobiology Campus are holding a conference on “Impacts and their Role in the Evolution of Life“. Topics covered by the conference will include the role of impacts in the early history of the Solar System, the characterization of impactors (asteroids, meteorites, comets, etc.) and impact sites, the role impacts could have played in the emergence and evolution of life, and possible threats to […]