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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our latest seminar video on scientific AI/ML is out! An amazing talk by Dr Eric Wolf on his adoption of agentic workflows for exoplanetary climate modeling research. Parts technical, parts philosophical, and parts personal. An essential resource... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRYt...

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AI/ML Seminar Series - Agentic AI Workflows - 9/17/26

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m very excited to share that I’ll be serving as Project Scientist for NASA’s First Look Science Team working with the remarkable Impact AI team at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and at IBM to build a Mars Atmosphere AI Foundation Model (MAFM).

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tomorrow at the @exploratorium.bsky.social! I’m so excited to be a part of this event at my childhood science museum!

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New paper: Astrobiology in the Time of Artificial Intelligence - a look at the history and future of machine learning and computing for space exploration and life detection in the context of the Viking missions 50th anniversary arxiv.org/abs/2606.23854 (Astrobiology Journal)

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Astrobiology in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

The Viking missions showcased multiple spaceflight technologies representing state-of-the-art capabilities: from digital line-scan imaging to the operation of complex onboard laboratories and software...

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Excited to share preprint of my new research: The Interplanetary Habitable Zone - habitability for space-faring species. A maths framework & agent-based simulation approach: arxiv.org/abs/2602.13404

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

You know it's a good science day when you get to write "boundedly rational utility maximizers" in an astrobiology research paper

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Why might our future in space look more like living on Deep Space Nine than colonizing other planets? Dr. @calebscharf.bsky.social explains on this recent episode of Strange New Worlds: A Science & Star Trek Podcast! soundcloud.com/strange-new-...

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a space ship with the letter b on the front

ALT: a space ship with the letter b on the front

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New planet just dropped and it 1) is almost exactly Earth-sized 2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year. 3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡 Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪

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Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit

Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If you want to know what it's like when two scientists who really enjoy each other's company sit down for a conversation about science, space, and life in the universe, well here's the answer:

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I can attest that this is a terrific book!

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

@nautil.us has this excellent series of "greatest revelations" from authors and others. I got to have my turn in talking about The Giant Leap and the things it revealed to me along the way... nautil.us/space-explor...

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Space Exploration Speaks to the Core of Who We Are

Space Exploration Speaks to the Core of Who We Are: Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf’s 3 greatest revelations while The Giant Leap.

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Thrilled to see a great review of The Giant Leap over at the @wsj.com ! “A scintillating tour of mankind’s explorations in space so far.” 😀 www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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‘The Giant Leap’ and ‘The Pale Blue Data Point’: Adventure Is Out There

Plus Jon Willis’s “The Pale Blue Data Point.”

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

For a moment this phrasing gave me a nice vision of pigs sitting around discussing ancestry…

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

New interview about The Giant Leap is now available - many thanks to Smithsonian Associates and Paul Vogelzang for a terrific conversation! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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🎙️The Giant Leap: Is Space the Future of Life on Earth?

Podcast Episode · The Not Old - Better Show · 12/30/2025 · 39m

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This is just incredible and lovely! Life in the abyss.

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Dr. Wildlife @drwildlife.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I haven’t stopped thinking about this frog since learning about it a few days ago, so now this knowledge is your problem too. Meet the turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii) – a round burrow gremlin from Australia. It gets its name from looking like a turtle that lost its shell. 📸 Stephen Zozaya

Photo of a turtle frog. Attribution: By Stephen Zozaya - Vertucci S, Pepper M, Edwards DL, Roberts JD, Mitchell N, Keogh JS (2017) Evolutionary and natural history of the turtle frog, Myobatrachus gouldii, a bizarre myobatrachid frog in the southwestern Australian biodiversity hotspot. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173348.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173348.g001., CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58023200

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Thanks @brianclegg.bsky.social for such a thoughtful review! Delighted that the book was of interest!

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

It's Friday, the holidays are upon us, what better time to read a book about the amazing enterprise of space exploration, and what it means for life on Earth!

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Another conversation about my new book The Giant Leap (@BasicBooks) is now live! Space exploration is such a rich topic and it stirs so many viewpoints, it's very fascinating. convergingdialogues.substack.com/p/456-the-fu...

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

New conversation about my book The Giant Leap and quite a lot more - life in the universe, data, and the future of space w. Brad Carr: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Kd...

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Caleb Scharf: Searching for Life in Space and the Shadow Biosphere

YouTube video by Brad Carr

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Science Magazine @science.org · 20/11/2025

This image shows 3D, millimeter-thick, and cell-embeddable semiconducting hydrogel fibers. These fibers can be used to construct interwoven living transistors that mimic real neuronal connections in the brain, redefining the boundary between technology and life. Learn more: scim.ag/4rqTOCj

This image shows three-dimensional, millimeter-thick, and cell-embeddable semiconducting hydrogel fibers.

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I am puzzled by Bluesky: posts here seem to have a really hard time being seen by...well, anyone. Maybe I'm just losing my touch...

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

In my new book I explore the complex history of space exploration and its staggering impacts on human life and all life on Earth - for better or worse. To see what the future might bring we have to place space into context, as fundamental change to evolutionary possibilities.

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

ICYMI had a terrific time talking with @adamfrank4.bsky.social for this @bigthink.com interview about The Giant Leap (Basic Books) and the implications of space exploration for the near and far future of life on Earth. bigthink.com/13-8/the-nex...

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The next great leap in evolution may lie beyond Earth

NASA’s Caleb Scharf talks with Big Think about how life’s story may be entering a new chapter — one that unfolds beyond Earth.

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Marvelous new image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, taken by photographer Satoru Murata before dawn this morning. On the right you can also see galaxy NGC 4691. There should be a lot more pictures coming in soon. 🧪🔭 www.facebook.com/groups/22700...

Interstellar comet ATLAS seen early this morning as a thin crescent moon passed immediately next to it. Still was able to capture three separate jets of ionic tail, and an anti tail? Or the dust tail? The comet was also passing by the galaxy NGC4691, which really gave the impression of the object being from another world.

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

New video! My full presentation about The Giant Leap to a live audience at @carnegiescience.bsky.social is now online! We grappled with science, philosophy, and the meaning of life! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1V...

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The Giant Leap

YouTube video by Carnegie Science

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Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: In his new book, The Giant Leap, NASA astrobiologist @calebscharf.bsky.social says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-s...

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Is Space the Place for Earth’s Next Evolutionary Leap?

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Simultaneously beautiful and the stuff of small human nightmares...

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

A topic that has come up in interviews and presentations for my new book The Giant Leap is reconceptualizing the notion of habitability for a planetary system (like ours) where life disperses from its point of origin. I use this graphic to help discuss: [1/n]

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Ah yes, back to the horrors of NYC 🤣

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Congratulations Jason! Amazing!

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The solar system represents scales of space, causal connection, and resources that life on Earth has not encountered before. What will this do to us and to all life as our efforts to explore and experiment in space expand? This is a major theme of The Giant Leap.

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Wow, the 10,000 th Starlink satellite was recently launched. The growth of space enterprise is hard to ignore - and is something I discuss in my new book The Giant Leap in the much larger context of the history of life on Earth

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The two physicists who detected the neutrino in 1956, Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan, had wanted to put their detector 50 metres from the destination of an atomic bomb! In the end, they settled for a nuclear reactor. www.hive.co.uk/Product/Marc...

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The man who predicted the existence of neutrinos, Wolfgang Pauli in 1930, bet a case of champagne that nobody would ever detect them. “I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected” - Wolfgang Pauli www.hive.co.uk/Product/Marc...

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Carnegie Science @carnegiescience.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

For the 1st time in 4 billion years, life has escaped its home planet! Join NASA Ames astrobiologist @calebscharf.bsky.social as we venture into the void to see how space exploration is reshaping our next great leap. 🗓️ 11/6 | 6:30 PM EST 📍 Carnegie Science, NW DC & Online 🎟️ RSVP → bit.ly/4qxBBT7

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The Giant Leap

NASA Astrobiologist and author Caleb Scharf explores how humanity’s expanding reach into space marks a pivotal moment in life’s evolution—revealing what it means for a species to step beyond its home ...

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Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Potentially contentious idea: space exploration is less about ignoring Earthly problems and more about giving ourselves a chance to do better...

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