The textbook grew out of more than a decade of teaching. What began as a graduate seminar evolved into undergraduate and ...

The number 45 matters less than what it represents: the shift from open-ended discovery to structured search, and from chance ...

Why it matters: Artemis II is a critical test mission to shake down spacecraft systems, enabling a permanent human presence ...

A formal letter (maximum two pages) describing the compelling reasons the nominee merits the award. Two letters of support provided by individuals other than the nominee. The nominee's full Curriculum ...

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

Seth claims to have developed an interest in extraterrestrial life at the tender age of ten, when he first picked up a book about the Solar System. This innocent beginning eventually led to a degree ...

Figure 1: A giant volcano hiding in plain sight in one of Mars’ most iconic regions. The newly discovered giant volcano on Mars is located just south of the planet’s equator, in Eastern Noctis ...

Asteroids! From 2024 YR 4's possible lunar impact to the DART mission's impact of Dimophos, we look at how scientists are ...

Project Phoenix was the world's most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence that had been conducted up until approximately 2015. It was an effort to detect ...

Opening-night screening of Project Hail Mary, followed by a live “Ask a Heliophysicist” discussion; Who: SETI Institute ...

Dr. Jill Tarter is Chair Emeritus for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for that institution. Tarter received her ...

To the moon and back we go…well, almost! For the first time in over 50 years, humans will head toward the moon, this time via ...