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Nominations are open for the 2026 Jill Tarter Award for Innovation in the Search for Life Beyond Earth, an international honor recognizing individuals whose ideas, work, or leadership have meaningfully advanced humanity’s efforts to understand life and intelligence in the Universe. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
A search for technosignatures in the galactic center may have revealed the first pulsar there. As Welch Postdoctoral Fellow Karen Perez explains, it's an exciting and possibly Nobel-worthy discovery, if confirmed! Listen to the full episode: feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
February 18, 2026 at 8:01 PM
A search for technosignatures in the galactic center may have revealed the first pulsar there. As Welch Postdoctoral Fellow Karen Perez explains, it's an exciting and possibly Nobel-worthy discovery, if confirmed! Listen to the full episode: feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 18 February 2026: Eclipse Watching And Base Camp Packing
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Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 18 February 2026: Eclipse Watching And Base Camp Packing - Astrobiology
A partial eclipse over Lake Untersee yesterday
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February 18, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 18 February 2026: Eclipse Watching And Base Camp Packing
astrobiology.com/2026/02/dale... #Astrobiology #Antarctica #DaleAndersen @setiinstitute.bsky.social
astrobiology.com/2026/02/dale... #Astrobiology #Antarctica #DaleAndersen @setiinstitute.bsky.social
#PPOD: On February 5, 2026, the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image of snow-covered landscapes across Hokkaido. With more than 31 active volcanoes, the island features several large caldera lakes... 🧪 👩🔬
February 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
#PPOD: On February 5, 2026, the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image of snow-covered landscapes across Hokkaido. With more than 31 active volcanoes, the island features several large caldera lakes... 🧪 👩🔬
Nominations are open for the 2026 Jill Tarter Award for Innovation in the Search for Life Beyond Earth, an international honor recognizing individuals whose ideas, work, or leadership have meaningfully advanced humanity’s efforts to understand life and intelligence in the Universe. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
February 18, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Nominations are open for the 2026 Jill Tarter Award for Innovation in the Search for Life Beyond Earth, an international honor recognizing individuals whose ideas, work, or leadership have meaningfully advanced humanity’s efforts to understand life and intelligence in the Universe. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
In a recent SETI Live episode, Simon Steel, Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, spoke with Dr. Caitlin Ahrens, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, about how Artemis II prepares the way for the next generation of lunar missions. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
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Back to the Moon
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February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
In a recent SETI Live episode, Simon Steel, Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, spoke with Dr. Caitlin Ahrens, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, about how Artemis II prepares the way for the next generation of lunar missions. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
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#PPOD: Astronomers have captured images of a star other than the Sun in enough detail to track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. The images of the star R Doradus were obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in July and August 2023. 🧪 🔭
February 17, 2026 at 4:03 PM
#PPOD: Astronomers have captured images of a star other than the Sun in enough detail to track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. The images of the star R Doradus were obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in July and August 2023. 🧪 🔭
In a recent SETI Live discussion, SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson spoke with UC Berkeley research scientist Eric Korpela about the enduring value of the SETI@home archive and the analytical methods that continue to shape modern search strategies. 🧪
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SETI at home Update: 21 Years of Citizen Science
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February 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM
In a recent SETI Live discussion, SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson spoke with UC Berkeley research scientist Eric Korpela about the enduring value of the SETI@home archive and the analytical methods that continue to shape modern search strategies. 🧪
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As Artemis II plans to take us back to the moon, other lunar events are stirring things up at NASA. A separate mission will deliver seismometers to measure moonquakes and record the possible impact of an asteroid on the lunar surface. It's a Celestial Shake-Up on this week’s @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪
February 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
As Artemis II plans to take us back to the moon, other lunar events are stirring things up at NASA. A separate mission will deliver seismometers to measure moonquakes and record the possible impact of an asteroid on the lunar surface. It's a Celestial Shake-Up on this week’s @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪
#PPOD: This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows white material believed to be dusty water ice lining the edges of Martian gullies in a region named Terra Sirenum. Scientists believe dust particles within this ice act similarly to dust that falls onto glaciers on Earth... 🧪 🔭
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
#PPOD: This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows white material believed to be dusty water ice lining the edges of Martian gullies in a region named Terra Sirenum. Scientists believe dust particles within this ice act similarly to dust that falls onto glaciers on Earth... 🧪 🔭
Meet Karen Perez, the Welch Postdoctoral Fellow here at the SETI Institute, as she chats with Beth during this week's #SETILive. Karen is the lead author on a paper about a possible pulsar detected near our galactic center. Watch the full interview: buff.ly/FcJ635h 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
February 14, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Meet Karen Perez, the Welch Postdoctoral Fellow here at the SETI Institute, as she chats with Beth during this week's #SETILive. Karen is the lead author on a paper about a possible pulsar detected near our galactic center. Watch the full interview: buff.ly/FcJ635h 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Dr. @kaylaiacovino.com studies how life-essential elements like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur drive magmatic processes that help form atmospheres, maintain climate, and create chemical disequilibria that life can exploit. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
#Volcanology #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens
#Volcanology #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens
February 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Dr. @kaylaiacovino.com studies how life-essential elements like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur drive magmatic processes that help form atmospheres, maintain climate, and create chemical disequilibria that life can exploit. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
#Volcanology #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens
#Volcanology #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens
Love Among the Stars is a Valentine’s Day–inspired journey through some of the most beautiful and evocative objects in the night sky. Written by Lauren Sgro and Beth Johnson, this illustrated guide blends poetic reflections with accessible astronomy. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬 ❤️
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Love Among the Stars - A Valentine's Day Guide to the Cosmos
Love Among the Stars is a Valentine’s Day–inspired journey through some of the most beautiful and evocative objects in the night sky. Written by Lauren Sgro and Beth Johnson, this illustrated guide…
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February 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Love Among the Stars is a Valentine’s Day–inspired journey through some of the most beautiful and evocative objects in the night sky. Written by Lauren Sgro and Beth Johnson, this illustrated guide blends poetic reflections with accessible astronomy. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬 ❤️
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Early Tuesday morning, March 3, a total eclipse of the Moon will be visible from throughout North America.
Board of Trustees member @fraknoi.bsky.social has provided an information sheet to answer your most pressing questions! 🧪 🔭
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Board of Trustees member @fraknoi.bsky.social has provided an information sheet to answer your most pressing questions! 🧪 🔭
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The March 3, 2026 Total Eclipse of the Moon
An Information Sheet by Andrew Fraknoi (U. of San Francisco, Fromm Institute)
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February 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Early Tuesday morning, March 3, a total eclipse of the Moon will be visible from throughout North America.
Board of Trustees member @fraknoi.bsky.social has provided an information sheet to answer your most pressing questions! 🧪 🔭
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Board of Trustees member @fraknoi.bsky.social has provided an information sheet to answer your most pressing questions! 🧪 🔭
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EVENT: Kids Week at the Intrepid Museum
New York, NY
Join us for Kids Week, where children of all ages can explore STEAM through a range of thrilling activities!
The SETI Institute will be there February 14-16! 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Learn more: www.seti.org/events/kids-...
New York, NY
Join us for Kids Week, where children of all ages can explore STEAM through a range of thrilling activities!
The SETI Institute will be there February 14-16! 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Learn more: www.seti.org/events/kids-...
Kids Week at the Intrepid Museum
With Simon Steel and Becca Robinson
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February 13, 2026 at 8:02 PM
EVENT: Kids Week at the Intrepid Museum
New York, NY
Join us for Kids Week, where children of all ages can explore STEAM through a range of thrilling activities!
The SETI Institute will be there February 14-16! 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Learn more: www.seti.org/events/kids-...
New York, NY
Join us for Kids Week, where children of all ages can explore STEAM through a range of thrilling activities!
The SETI Institute will be there February 14-16! 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Learn more: www.seti.org/events/kids-...
#PPOD: This picture shows the full scope of Paranal’s beauty. Cerro Paranal in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the mountain peak home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), is a site of many marvels. And this panoramic image taken by Chilean astrophotographer Alexis Trigo certainly captures them all. 🧪 🔭
February 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
#PPOD: This picture shows the full scope of Paranal’s beauty. Cerro Paranal in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the mountain peak home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), is a site of many marvels. And this panoramic image taken by Chilean astrophotographer Alexis Trigo certainly captures them all. 🧪 🔭
PRESS RELEASE:
A new study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk suggests Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, formed from a collision between two older moons—and that this event may also be linked to the formation of Saturn’s iconic rings. 🧪 🔭
Read the full release: www.seti.org/news/saturns...
A new study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk suggests Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, formed from a collision between two older moons—and that this event may also be linked to the formation of Saturn’s iconic rings. 🧪 🔭
Read the full release: www.seti.org/news/saturns...
February 13, 2026 at 12:01 AM
PRESS RELEASE:
A new study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk suggests Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, formed from a collision between two older moons—and that this event may also be linked to the formation of Saturn’s iconic rings. 🧪 🔭
Read the full release: www.seti.org/news/saturns...
A new study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk suggests Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, formed from a collision between two older moons—and that this event may also be linked to the formation of Saturn’s iconic rings. 🧪 🔭
Read the full release: www.seti.org/news/saturns...
Next #SETILive: Today, 2:30 pm PST
A new possible pulsar has been identified near the center of the Milky Way — one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy.
For decades, astronomers expected to find many pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A*. But they’ve been frustratingly hard to detect. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
A new possible pulsar has been identified near the center of the Milky Way — one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy.
For decades, astronomers expected to find many pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A*. But they’ve been frustratingly hard to detect. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
February 12, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Next #SETILive: Today, 2:30 pm PST
A new possible pulsar has been identified near the center of the Milky Way — one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy.
For decades, astronomers expected to find many pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A*. But they’ve been frustratingly hard to detect. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
A new possible pulsar has been identified near the center of the Milky Way — one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy.
For decades, astronomers expected to find many pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A*. But they’ve been frustratingly hard to detect. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
#PPOD: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us a striking view of northern Italy, highlighting several key Olympic venues for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Also known as the Milano Cortina Games, this year’s Olympics are geographically widespread... 🧪
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
#PPOD: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us a striking view of northern Italy, highlighting several key Olympic venues for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Also known as the Milano Cortina Games, this year’s Olympics are geographically widespread... 🧪
🧪 🔭 👩🔬 In a recent SETI Live conversation, science communicator Dr. Moiya McTier spoke with Dr. Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Dr. Lingyu Wang, and Antonio la Marca from SRON to discuss two Euclid studies that address different aspects of a long-standing astrophysical hypothesis:
February 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
🧪 🔭 👩🔬 In a recent SETI Live conversation, science communicator Dr. Moiya McTier spoke with Dr. Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Dr. Lingyu Wang, and Antonio la Marca from SRON to discuss two Euclid studies that address different aspects of a long-standing astrophysical hypothesis:
Our latest #SETILive #podcast examines the #ArtemisII mission! One of the places the team will observe is Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole. @ahrensscience.bsky.social discusses the possibilities for understanding the crater's ice. Listen to the full episode: buff.ly/Wbq73HS 🧪 👩🔬 🔭
February 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Our latest #SETILive #podcast examines the #ArtemisII mission! One of the places the team will observe is Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole. @ahrensscience.bsky.social discusses the possibilities for understanding the crater's ice. Listen to the full episode: buff.ly/Wbq73HS 🧪 👩🔬 🔭
#PPOD: This image from NASA’s JWST, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of dark matter, represented in blue. Brighter blue areas indicate a higher density of dark matter. Researchers used JWST data to detect dark matter through its gravitational influence on ordinary matter. 🧪
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
#PPOD: This image from NASA’s JWST, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of dark matter, represented in blue. Brighter blue areas indicate a higher density of dark matter. Researchers used JWST data to detect dark matter through its gravitational influence on ordinary matter. 🧪
Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon on February 3, 1966, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. Despite the mission's success, its exact landing spot remained a mystery. Now, a new analysis may have solved it. 🧪 🔭
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AI Helps Pinpoint the Moons First Soft Landing
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February 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon on February 3, 1966, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. Despite the mission's success, its exact landing spot remained a mystery. Now, a new analysis may have solved it. 🧪 🔭
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Can artificially cooling human bodies provide benefits? Some startup companies are promising life after death through cryogenic freezing. But it’s one thing to freeze a body, another to revive it. We go from Hot to Cold on this week’s @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪
Listen here: bit.ly/4aCqLoE
Listen here: bit.ly/4aCqLoE
February 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Can artificially cooling human bodies provide benefits? Some startup companies are promising life after death through cryogenic freezing. But it’s one thing to freeze a body, another to revive it. We go from Hot to Cold on this week’s @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪
Listen here: bit.ly/4aCqLoE
Listen here: bit.ly/4aCqLoE
#PPOD: This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy that, along with other types of solar eruptions, can impact radio communications, electric power grids... 🧪 🔭
February 10, 2026 at 6:06 PM
#PPOD: This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy that, along with other types of solar eruptions, can impact radio communications, electric power grids... 🧪 🔭
#PPOD: This very impressive, and little-known, image of a meandering squiggle of high-altitude clouds on Saturn was captured by the Cassini spacecraft on July 18, 2010. It almost looks like one of these fancy latte art designs! Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS / @jpmajor.bsky.social 🧪 🔭
February 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
#PPOD: This very impressive, and little-known, image of a meandering squiggle of high-altitude clouds on Saturn was captured by the Cassini spacecraft on July 18, 2010. It almost looks like one of these fancy latte art designs! Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS / @jpmajor.bsky.social 🧪 🔭