Yuri’s Night in Marilia, Brazil

BMSIS Scientist Dr. Ivan Paulino-Lima recently organized the very first Yuri’s Night event in his home town of Marilia, Brazil! Yuri’s Night is a global celebration of humanity’s past, present, and future in space. It’s a world space party, bringing together space-themed events of many kinds from around the globe and bringing together people to share in a passion for space exploration and understanding our place in the cosmos. The events are held every April in commemoration of when Yuri […]

April 1, 2019

BMSIS Monthly: The Detectability of Future Earth

BMSIS Monthly – March 2019 Every month, the scientists of Blue Marble Space Institute of Science meet to discuss their research, work in science communication, upcoming conferences and events, and more. The Meeting for March 2019 included a conversation about the recent issue of the journal Futures that focused on the detectability of our future Earth. Our monthly meeting for March of 2019 included a conversation about the works recently published in a special edition of the journal Futures that […]

February 25, 2019

Synthetic Hydrothermal Vents at NASA JPL

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 […]

February 13, 2019

Detectability of Future Earth

A cosmic perspective on the future of our world and the longevity of our civilization A new special issue of the journal Futures is now available and features papers that examine the future of Earth and civilization from an astrobiological perspective, particularly focused on the extent to which human activities could be detectable across interstellar distances. BMSIS Scientist Jacob Haqq-Misra edited this special issue and provides the introductory chapter. The issue also includes contributions from BMSIS Scientists Sanjoy Som, Brendan […]

December 26, 2018

The 2018 International Conference on Astrobiology in Pune, India – “A Grand Success”

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 […]

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