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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cassandra Juran was featured on the Big Ideas at µScale podcast, discussing how her SPACE Lab uses custom 3D-printed microfluidics (tissue-chip and organoid systems) to study how spaceflight changes human biology, including spaceflight-accelerated aging.

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Big Ideas at µScale Episode 11 - How does human biology change in space?

In this episode of Big Ideas at Microscale, we speak with Dr. Cassandra Juran from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science at NASA Ames Research…

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BMS Visiting Scholar, Rajat Bhushan Gupta, built The Vent Ledger, a research prototype that uses machine learning on NASA's ThermoBase dataset to help weigh whether a gas detected in a given environment is more likely to come from biology or ordinary geology.

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The Vent Ledger — biosignature plausibility explorer

THERMOBASE BIOSIGNATURE PLAUSIBILITY EXPLORER

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Astrobiologists Srishti Kashyap and Alta Howells are co-authors on Searching for extraterrestrial life advances terrestrial sustainability, a perspectives piece in Nature Communications that came out this past year. www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

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Astrobiologists search for alien life and help life on Earth in the process

A team of early-career researchers say exploring how life may have evolved on far-away worlds could lead to advancements on Earth—from new sources of

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Save the date for Life and Space 2026 Tomasz Zajkowski and the Polish Astrobiology Society invite schoalrs globally to consider joining Life and Space 2026 (LAS26), the Society's international online astrobiology conference, taking place December 4–6, 2026. Full details at astrobio.pl/LAS26.

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BMS CEO and Founder, Dr. Sanjoy Som, was recently interviewed by Fraser Cain on the Universe Today Podcast about his paper, Multistage Rocket Optimization, Geophysics, and the Spacefaring Envelope of Habitable Super-Earths. youtu.be/QD5sJ636wxM?...

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How Much Gravity Is Too Much To Escape A Planet?

🔴 [Interview+] No YT ads. Bonus Part. FREE for everyone https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/posts/166373317 Rockets fight against gravity to help us as a civilization escape into space. But what…

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For Postdoc Appreciation Week, The Explainables are offering their Explainables Workbook for free this week only.

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're so very proud of our Young Scientist Program at BMS. Over the years, we've had 739 participants in our program, joining us collectively from 56 nations around the world. Could you become one of our Research Associates in 2027? Learn more at www.bluemarblespace.org/ysp

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Out today in Planetary Perspectives, Rajat Bhushan Gupta writes on the new research article he co-authored with other Blue Marble Space scholars and affiliates on the ways that astrobiology connects with human space exploration. Read more here: planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/integratin...

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The world's oceans are large interconnected systems that include various current and movements through their depths in various places in dynamic ways that also impact surface behaviors and global climate www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5-s...

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An Ocean in Motion: NASA's Mesmerizing View of Earth's Underwater Highways

This data visualization showing ocean currents around the world uses data from NASA’s ECCO model, or Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean. The model pulls data from spacecraft, buoys,…

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Gerald A. Soffen Memorial Fund is pleased to announce the Fall 2026 Travel Grant application opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing studies in fields of space science and engineering. soffenfund.org

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Being able to quickly recognize a real message from space and decide whether the pattern buried in the noise is a real message or nothing at all is an important challenge in SETI. planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/teaching-m...

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Teaching Machines to Recognize a Message From the Stars

John Elliott on The Technosignature Toolbox for IAUS404

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A poem by Sophie Stevens from the 2026 AbSciCon Creative Writing Competition. planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/the-others...

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the Others and i

A poem from Sophie Stevens and the AbSciCon Creative Writing Competition

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If a civilization ever outgrew its need for stars and evolved into something closer to a distributed machine intelligence, where would it go looking for power? Perhaps the best option would be the most extreme energy gradient in the universe: a black hole.

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New paper from BMS researchers! Celia Blanco, Anamaria Berea, Anurup Mohanty, Arunava Poddar, and Rajat Bhushan Gupta just published "The Case for Integrating Astrobiology Before, During, and After Crewed Space Missions" in Astrobiology. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The Case for Integrating Astrobiology Before, During, and After Crewed Space Missions - Celia Blanco, Anamaria Berea, Anurup Mohanty, Arunava Poddar, Rajat Bhushan Gupta, 2026

The transition to sustained human space exploration is reshaping how astrobiology can be conducted. As missions extend beyond low Earth orbit and involve govern...

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The newest share from the 2026 AbSciCon Creative Writing Competition is a fiction piece written by Elvis De Santiago. Check it out at Planetary Perspectives! planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/good-day-o...

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our most recent post on the talks from this year's IAU symposium on Advancing the Search for Technosignatures explores how we can detect false positives in the search for Dyson Spheres. planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/how-archiv...

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Gabby Rizzo, a 2023 BMS Young Scientist Program alum and now a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, just put together a free guide packed with summer programs, research experiences, online courses, and citizen-science projects for students. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Astrobiology_Opportunities_for_High_School_Students_2027.docx

STUDENT OPPORTUNITY GUIDE | VERSION 1.0 Exploring Astrobiology in High School Summer programs, research experiences, online courses, and citizen-science projects for 2027 planning PREPARED…

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Somewhere among the roughly 300 billion stars of the Milky Way, could one or more be wrapped in an artificial shell, its starlight dimmed and its waste heat leaking out as an infrared glow?

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The meeting report for IAU Symposium 404: "Advancing the Search for Technosignatures" — the online symposium BMS hosted this past March, chaired by Jacob Haqq-Misra and Ravi Kopparapu — has been published in Nature Astronomy.

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Advancing the search for technosignatures

Nature Astronomy - The IAU’s first fully online symposium brought researchers together from around the globe to discuss technosignatures. Upcoming all-sky surveys, exoplanet missions and...

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BMS scientist, Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra, published "Exploring TRAPPIST-1 Climate States with an Energy Balance Model", presenting a version of the HEXTOR energy balance model configured to study the climates of habitable terrestrial planets around low-mass stars. arxiv.org/abs/2605.069...

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Exploring TRAPPIST-1 Climate States with an Energy Balance Model

This paper presents a version of the HEXTOR energy balance model that has been configured for the study of habitable terrestrial planets orbiting low-mass stars. The model is validated for…

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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. Sign up here for updates: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

BMS scientist, Dr. Alireza Hayati, is a co-author on a new paper in Scientific Data, titled "A multimodal paired slit-lamp photography and anterior segment optical coherence tomography dataset for anterior chamber biometry and cross-modality modelling." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A multimodal paired slit-lamp photography and anterior segment optical coherence tomography dataset for anterior chamber biometry and cross-modality modelling - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A multimodal paired slit-lamp photography and anterior segment optical coherence tomography dataset for anterior chamber biometry and cross-modality modelling

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

BMS scientist, Dr. Graham Lau, led a trip for middle school students to conduct service learning on the Big Island of Hawaii this summer. cosmobiota.substack.com/p/service-le...

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Service Learning on the Big Island of Hawaii

Cultivation of crops, Hawaiian language and culture, preservation of historical sites, and caring for the land with Putney Student Travel

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Earth's oceans just hit their hottest temperatures on record, and they're expected to keep climbing through the fall as a supersized El Niño builds toward its peak. apnews.com/article/hott...

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Earth is simmering in its hottest water temps on record, and that's bad for fish and us

The European climate service Copernicus says the world's oceans have reached their hottest temperature on record.

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Farm-to-table has gone orbital. Astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir harvested kale and wasabi mustard grown aboard the ISS. Beyond the "it smells like Earth" moment, fresh-grown food could be key to astronaut health on longer missions, like a future trip to Mars. www.rd.com/article/astr...

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Astronauts Grew Farm-to-Table Kale in Space—And It’s a Bigger Deal Than You Think. Here’s Why

Astronaut Jessica Meir grew vegetables in space on the International Space Station, and she shared the results in a video.

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Srishti Kashyap and Alta Howells (both BMS-affiliated researchers) are co-authors on a Nature Communications perspectives piece exploring how extreme environments can be used to learn more about life here and possibly elsewhere. www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

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Astrobiologists search for alien life and help life on Earth in the process

A team of early-career researchers say exploring how life may have evolved on far-away worlds could lead to advancements on Earth—from new sources of

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Researchers at Penn State have used "thunderquakes" (seismic waves from thunder) to image what's beneath Earth's surface, tapping into existing underground fiber-optic cables to pick up the signal. www.psu.edu/news/earth-a...

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Thunderquakes: A new way to image the Earth’s subsurface | Penn State University

Seismic waves produced by thunderstorms, called thunderquakes, can be used as a novel source for seismic imaging, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.

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Experimental Physiology @expphysiol.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In this Viewpoint article, Riley A. Dienna et al. (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, @bluemarblespace.bsky.social) consider the development of artificial gravity and resistive vibration exercise protocol: a step towards novel countermeasures for prolonged spaceflight 📖 buff.ly/LVRM6wK

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Astronomers testing a new telescope in Chile pointed it at the Helix Nebula, and they captured something no one had seen before: 22 glowing bow shocks, formed as fragments of a dying star's debris slam into surrounding interstellar gas. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

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Astronomers witness cosmic recycling system in action

New image of Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars return material to the galaxy

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In "Ruins Among the Stars: Alien Technologies Left Behind", published in Planetary Perspectives, we explore Dr. Brian Lacki's work on passive technosignatures for alien life. Read more here: planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/ruins-amon...

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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.

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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...

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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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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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...

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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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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Today we’re delighted to share SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS-MISSION MARSBIO-III by R. Valli Divya. planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/mission-ma...

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Mission MarsBio-III

R. Valli Divya's entry for the 2026 AbSciCon Creative Writing Competition

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

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.

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Fifteen Minutes of Moonset and Sunrise Over the Golden Gate Photo by Fredric Walder

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Blue Marble Space @bluemarblespace.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Supermoon Path Over Paris at Sunset Photo by Martin Giraud

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