“Do you want to send your art into space on the new Cheops satellite? ESA and its mission partners are inviting children to submit drawings that will be miniaturised and engraved on…
Month: May 2015
VPL Astrobiology Colloquium: Self-Organizing Chemical Systems: From Materials Science to Astrobiology
Self-organizing processes in chemical reaction/precipitation systems can lead to a variety of complex structures, including chemical gardens and inorganic membranes. They key aspects of these systems are the steep concentration gradients and…
Summer School: Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems and Habitable Planets
Interested researchers and students are invited to apply for the summer school “Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems and Habitable Planets”, which will take place in Moletai, Lithuania (close to Vilnius) from…
NASA Announces Journey to Mars Challenge
“NASA is embarking on an ambitious journey to Mars and Tuesday announced a challenge inviting the public to write down their ideas, in detail, for developing the elements of space pioneering necessary…
NASA Citizen Science Asteroid Data, Education, and Tools
“The Citizen science Asteroid Data, Education, and Tools (CADET) is a joint solicitation of the Near Earth Objects (NEO) Program within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Asteroid Grand Challenge (AGC)…
Free Online ESA Course: Monitoring Climate from Space MOOC
“Registration is open for a free online course that provides an introduction to monitoring climate change using satellite Earth observation. ESA has teamed up with FutureLearn, a leading online learning platform, to…
CubeSats Offer Engineers Unprecedented Access to Space
“Steve Provence likes to talk about space, and engineering students at the University of Houston are benefiting from his conversations. The NASA engineer and UH adjunct professor teaches several electrical engineering classes,…
High School Students Find Pulsar With Widest Orbit Ever Detected
“A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Further observations by…