Cheltenham Festivals (UK), NASA, and the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science (BMSIS) are pleased to announce a partnership to operate Cheltenham Festival’s flagship science communication activity – FameLab® – within the USA for the first time. The competition will be held in the fields of astrobiology and planetary sciences, and is open to all scientists working in these diverse areas of research. FameLab Astrobiology will discover and develop science communication skills within the astrobiology community. Workshops will train scientists […]

The Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI), a division of the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science (BMSIS) is a startup think tank leading research, education, and professional networking on global catastrophic risk. GCRI research aims to identify and assess the most effective ways of reducing the risk of global catastrophe, as well as the issues raised by global catastrophic risk. GCRI education aims to raise awareness and understanding about global catastrophic risk among students, professionals, and the general public. GCRI […]

The November 2011 science podcast of “Beer with BMSIS” is now available. This month, Dr. Sanjoy Som discusses “Coming down the ‘cosmic-importance ladder – Some thoughts on Astrobiology and the Divine”. Tune in for a fascinating conversation.

Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe became famous for describing the “new star”, or supernova, in the sky, thereby demonstrating that the celestial heavens are not immutable. Over four hundred years later, Tycho’s island of Ven once again teemed with scientific discussion as the site of an international symposium on the History and Philosophy of Astrobiology. Hosted by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Study at Lund University in Sweden, the conference appropriately included a tour of Brahe’s underground observatory and castle grounds […]

The October 2011 science podcast of “Beer with BMSIS” is now available. This month, Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra discusses “Sustainability, Galactic Colonization, and Extraterrestrial Ethics”. Tune in for a fascinating conversation.

What do you get when you combine a dialog over the phone with a video recording that gets combined into a split-screen? According to the brains behind BloggingHeads.tv, you get adiavlog. Watch Daniel Foster of the National Review Online in his diavlog with BMSIS researcher Jacob Haqq-Misra titled Xenopsychology 101. You can jump to highlighted sections in this lengthy interview, which discusses some of the interconnections between astrobiology, ethics, and politics. For a deeper look at what started all of the interest in this topic, check […]

Finally! Although founded in 2009 in a dark bar in San Francisco, the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science has now its home on the web! Please subscribe to the RSS posts and “like us” on facebook! BMSIS is fully registered with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA, and is staffed with early career scientists ready to make a 21st century impact in the way of doing science, and solve timely problems in a truly inter-disciplinary and inter-collaborative […]