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

The hour-long conversation also traces her unusual path from aerospace engineering into space bioscience at NASA Ames Research Center, and digs into why microgravity makes such a powerful lens for studying human adaptation and resilience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5QK...

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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 · 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

As Rajat put it, it's less a finished research product than a proof of concept for how dormant NASA datasets can be put back to work. Try it yourself: ramdasrajat.github.io/vent-ledgers

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The Vent Ledger — biosignature plausibility explorer

THERMOBASE BIOSIGNATURE PLAUSIBILITY EXPLORER

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

Users can set a hypothetical environment's temperature, pH, and oxygen level and see which known thermophile metabolisms could plausibly survive there (and how easily the gases they'd produce could also form abiotically).

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The Vent Ledger — biosignature plausibility explorer

THERMOBASE BIOSIGNATURE PLAUSIBILITY EXPLORER

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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

The paper makes the case for a "dual approach" to astrobiology: studying extreme environments, from Yellowstone hot springs to deep subsurface rock, to understand both how life might exist elsewhere and how those same systems could inspire clean energy and carbon-capture technology here on Earth.

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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

This year's scientific program spans six thematic areas: • Origins and Evolution of Life • Planetary Exploration and the Search for Life • Space Biotechnology and Human Exploration • Artificial Intelligence and Digital Astrobiology • Space, Society and Education • Interdisciplinary Astrobiology

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

Now a mainstay for early-career astrobiologists, LAS26 is built around giving students and early-career researchers an accessible, low-barrier platform to present their work. Registration opens October 1, 2026, with a participation fee of $25.

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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

It's not limited to postdocs: PhD students, early-career researchers, professors, and anyone navigating (or exiting) academia can benefit. To get it: follow Explainables on LinkedIn, then comment "WORKBOOK" on their post (or DM them) to receive the PDF. www.linkedin.com/posts/explai...

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

The workbook covers the practical skills grad school often skips: pitching fundable proposals, academic branding and networking, turning research into a compelling story, and presenting with confidence.

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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 · 19/09/2026

It's a a guide compiling summer programs, research experiences, online courses, and citizen-science projects for high schoolers interested in astrobiology. If you know a student, teacher, or program that could use it, give it a share!

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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

Read more about this potential and the work Olivia Curtis presented in early 2026 during the IAU symposium Advancing the Search for Technosignatures: planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/minds-arou...

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Minds Around the Abyss: What Would an AI Living on a Black Hole Look Like?

Olivia Curtis on Dyson Minds and Black Hole Technosignatures for IAUS404

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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 · 04/09/2026

Science operations begin April 2027, studying Mercury's surface, interior, and magnetic environment. A patient, precision-choreographed arrival for one of the trickiest destinations in the solar system.

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

Orbital insertion is set for 21 November, with the two orbiters (ESA's MPO and JAXA's Mio) splitting up in December and settling into their respective polar orbits by March 2027.

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

After nearly 8 years in transit, the ESA/JAXA mission separated its transfer module today, kicking off a ~6-month approach sequence.

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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 · 29/08/2026

This program supports early-career researchers (PhD candidates & postdocs within 2 years of completion) working on exoplanet research or instrumentation — with webinar features, mentorship from established "ExoGuides," and professional development events.

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Welcome - NASA Science

The Exoplanet Explorers (ExoExplorers) Science Series, sponsored by the ExoPAG Executive Committee and the NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, aims to

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

That’s part of what Erik Zackrisson presented this year during IAUS404: Advancing the Search for Technosignatures. Read more in Planetary Persepctives! planetaryperspectives.substack.com/p/the-blacks...

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The Blacksmith God's Telescope: Hunting Dyson Spheres in the Milky Way

Erik Zackrisson on Project Hephaistos and the Search for Dyson Spheres for IAUS404

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

That’s what Freeman Dyson wondered when he proposed the spherical structures surrounding stars we now call Dyson Spheres, and the question sits at the heart of Project Hephaistos, a real observational search that has already turned up candidates worth a second look!

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The Blacksmith God's Telescope: Hunting Dyson Spheres in the Milky Way

Erik Zackrisson on Project Hephaistos and the Search for Dyson Spheres for IAUS404

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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 symposium drew 153 participants from 33 countries and was the first fully online-only IAU symposium.

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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

The results suggest a state of partial ice cover for TRAPPIST-1 e and complete ice cover for TRAPPIST-1 f, unless carbon dioxide levels are high — offering a lightweight approach to guide more complex climate models and observations toward the most promising targets.

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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

The dataset paper introduces a paired imaging resource for anterior chamber biometry, aimed at supporting cross-modality modeling research.

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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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