Dr. Matt Tiscareno studies how things move in the solar system. He led the discovery of small moons embedded in Saturn’s rings, seen indirectly by the propeller-shaped disturbances they create in the surrounding ring material. 🧪 🔭 #NotJustAliens

You may access the position of Phobos as seen by Perseverance through the Horizons System maintained by JPL for NASA: ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app.... This relies on a series of Phobos empherides that have been regularly updated: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

SETI Institute communications specialist @planetarypan.bsky.social welcomed @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, environmental historian at Georgetown University, for a discussion on his new book Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, released October 28, 2025. 🧪 👩‍🔬 📖

Proposal Writing Workshop: Using NASA ROSES as an Example (Session @ SCIWS2) For those attending the Fall American Geophysical Union (#AGU25) Meeting, an all-day proposal writing workshop will be sponsored by the NASA Science Mission Directorate and hosted by Dr. Christina Richey. 🧪 👩‍🔬

On Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025, at 7 pm (PST), Dr. Alfonso Davila (NASA Ames Research Center) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled: "The Search for Life on Saturn’s Intriguing Moon Enceladus" in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, in Los Altos. #bayarea 🧪

#PPOD: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun. It’s the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI 🧪 🔭

The SETI Institute recently hosted the Joint IRIS and MUSE Science Team Meeting, bringing together more than 50 solar physicists from around the world for an intensive week of collaboration and discovery. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/seti-in...

Want good news on the climate front? The world is making immense strides in harnessing solar energy. Some of the leaders might surprise you (we see you, Texas!) This week, author @billmckibben.bsky.social on our sunnier future on @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪 Listen bigpicturescience.org/episodes/sol...

#PPOD: Astronomers from the @icrar.bsky.social have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of our galaxy... 🧪 🔭 Credit: S. Mantovanini & the GLEAM-X team

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien beings don’t “speak” in any sense we understand? 🧪 🔭 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/do-alie...

Dr. Rachel Morgan is an Optical Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. She completed her undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering and Physics at MIT. She then continued at MIT for graduate school as a NASA Space Technology and Research Fellow and an Amelia Earhart Fellow. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #NotJustAliens

Climate change may be outpacing our ability to deal with it using engineering. The third episode of @bipisci.bsky.social, tied to the 20th anniversary of the devastating hurricane, “Katrina and the River,” looks at efforts to tame the mighty Mississippi. Listen here: bit.ly/4lzfJmh #podcast 🧪

In a significant advance for astronomy, researchers from the Breakthrough Listen initiative, working in collaboration with NVIDIA and utilizing their system on the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array, have enhanced the process for detecting Fast Radio Bursts. 🧪 🔭 Learn more:

#PPOD: A beautiful picture of Jupiter taken by JunoCam onboard NASA's Juno spacecraft and processed by a citizen scientist. Numerous swirling storms are visible among the cloud tops, appearing in shades of white, tan, and blue. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Giulio Macrì 🧪 🔭

Earlier this week, @setiinstitute.bsky.social’s Ariel Graykowski welcomed Brice Bolin & Laura-May Abron to the SkyMapper/ @unistellar.bsky.social office for a chat on interstellar comet 3I/Atlas and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids ☄️

Throughout October, the SETI Institute was featured across leading science and media outlets, underscoring its continued leadership in research, innovation, and public engagement. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Read the full stories: www.seti.org/news/seti-in...

In a recent episode of SETI Live, SETI Institute Deputy Director Dr. Simon Steel spoke with astronomer Dr. Melissa McClure of Leiden University about a groundbreaking discovery: the earliest stages of planet formation caught in action. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/birth-o...

Next #SETILive: TRAPPIST‑1 e Revealed TODAY, 6 November, 10 am PST Join @goastromo.bsky.social, Néstor Espinoza (STScI), and @ana-glidden.bsky.social for a deep dive into the latest JWST observations of TRAPPIST‑1 e, a tantalizing Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#PPOD: The first anniversary image from NASA’s JWST displays star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Dr. Ian Weaver earned his PhD in Astrophysics from Harvard University, where he studied the atmospheres of planets around other stars. He currently serves as the Education Lead for Unistellar, which provides community outreach support for the NASA Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) mission. 🧪

The SETI Institute has announced it will adopt NVIDIA’s new IGX Thor platform to enhance real-time signal processing at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in Northern California. 🧪 Learn more: thedebrief.org/seti-institu...

#PPOD: Dust devils are whirlwinds of dust that are blown across Mars’s surface. They are one way that dust gets lifted into the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere and transported from one place to another. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin 🧪 🔭

Thursday night plans? We’re going to Europa. 🚀 Join us for a free screening of Europa Report and a conversation with SETI Institute astronomer James De Buizer! 🗓 Nov 6 | 6:30PM PT 📍 SETI Institute (Mountain View, CA) & Zoom 🎟️ Sign up: tinyurl.com/europa-report 🧪 🎥

Only the third known object to enter our Solar System from another star system, #3IATLAS became the focus of a special SETI Live episode featuring @allplanets.bsky.social and SETI Institute cometary scientist Dr. Ariel Graykowski. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/comet-3... #notaliens

#PPOD: This unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Crater features a bright central core, where a supermassive black hole lies, surrounded by a disk of hot, young stars and spiral arms laced with streams of dust and more young stars. 🧪 🔭

The future of the Big Easy depends on controlling a river that wants to be wild. Can engineering keep pace with climate change? The last in the @bipisci.bsky.social series tied to the storm’s 20th anniversary: “Katrina and the River,” looks at the mighty Mississippi. 🧪 Listen: bit.ly/4lzfJmh

Next #SETILive: Welcome, Moiya! TODAY, 3 November, 2:30 pm PST @goastromo.bsky.social is an astrophysicist, folklorist, and science communicator in New York City who loves planets, galaxy evolution, her cat named Cosmo, and old stories about space. She is also the latest addition... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#PPOD: This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Io, which is slightly larger than Earth's moon, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

#ICYMI: Environmental historian Dagomar Degroot explains that we can solve a climate issue if we work together... we have done it before! Watch the full #SETILive interview: youtube.com/live/iw7Irsc... 🧪 #podcast #climatechange

Dr. Matija Ćuk specializes in the orbital and rotational dynamics of the Solar System bodies and has worked on the origin and dynamics of binary asteroids, the Earth-Moon system, and Saturn's moons and rings. 🧪 🔭 #PlanetaryScience #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens

Death and decay are essential to life’s continuance. We consider what is involved in the ultimate recycling program with forensic anthropologists at the Body Farm when we meet The Decomposers on @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪 💀 Listen here: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/the... #podcast #halloween

Next #SETILive: Comet 3I/ATLAS Update TODAY, 31 October, 1:00 pm PDT What happens when a visitor from another star system drops by? Join planetary astronomers @allplanets.bsky.social and Ariel Graykowski for a special SETI Live all about #Comet3I/ATLAS. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/OnpJRwX

#PPOD: This image of the crater Daedalus, with a diameter of about 80 kilometers, on the Moon's far side was taken by the Apollo 11 crew while in orbit around the Moon in 1969. The Moon’s far side is rugged and densely cratered, while the near side is comparatively smooth. Credit: NASA 🧪 🔭

A massive coronal hole on the Sun has formed, releasing high-speed solar wind directly toward Earth. This stream of charged particles triggers spectacular auroral displays but can also disrupt satellites, communications, and electrical infrastructure. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Next #SETILive TODAY, 30 October, 1 pm PDT / 4 pm EDT Join host @planetarypan.bsky.social as she talks with Dr. Eric Boyd from Montana State University about a groundbreaking discovery: microbes that can breathe in two ways at once! 🧪 WATCH LIVE: youtube.com/live/pbJ4rxG...

#PPOD: Called Seyfert's Sextet, this galactic vista was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in its 13th year. The galaxies are so tightly packed together that gravitational forces are beginning to rip stars from them and distort their shapes. 🧪 🔭

Today on the arXiv and accepted at MNRAS: Ward & Ćuk 2025, "On The Applicability of Ring-Moon Cycles to Exoplanets" - arxiv.org/abs/2510.24644 Based on Isabella Ward's work as part of the @setiinstitute.bsky.social REU program.

@chenoachem.bsky.social is a project scientist at the SETI Institute with joint appointments at Breakthrough Initiatives, the University of New Mexico, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #Astrobiology #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens #SometimesAliens

#PPOD: An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a sunset that looks like a vast sheet of flame. With Earth’s surface already in darkness, the setting sun, the cloud masses, and the sideways viewing angle make a powerful image. 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA Caption: M. Justin Wilkinson

A new wave of expedition cruises is set to merge scientific discovery with luxury exploration as Swan Hellenic partners with the SETI Institute for its 2026 Explore Space at Sea Series. This collaboration will see a lineup of 11 scientists from the SETI Institute. 🧪 Learn more:

Our CEO @allplanets.bsky.social and Lauren Sgro from @setiinstitute.bsky.social joined Silicon Zombies for a chat on 🛰️ space comms, #SkyViewer, and life beyond our Solar System, followed by an on-theme alien party 👽 If they are out there, we hope they tuned in too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X35b...

PRESS RELEASE The SETI Institute announced that it will incorporate the new NVIDIA IGX Thor platform to enhance its real-time search for signals from space at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in Northern California. 🧪 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/seti-in...

Next #SETILive: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean TODAY, 28 October, 12:00 pm PDT Join @planetarypan.bsky.social for a conversation with @dagomardegroot.bsky.social as they delve into the themes of his new book, Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, scheduled for release today, October 28, 2025. 🧪 📖

#PPOD: Saturn is captured here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini orbited the gas giant for thirteen years before ending its mission by plunging into the planet's atmosphere on September 15, 2017. This image is a mosaic compiled from frames recorded by Cassini two days before its final dive. 🧪 🔭

Forensic anthropologists at the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, describe what happens to bodies after death; plus, maggots are key to solving a Neanderthal mystery when we meet The Decomposers on @bipisci.bsky.social. Listen here: buff.ly/nqGC2k9 🧪 #podcast

PPOD: The High Resolution Stereo Imaging camera onboard ESA’s Mars Express captured this frosty scene in the Ultimi Scopuli region near the south pole of Mars on 19 May 2022. At this time, it was southern hemisphere spring, and ice was starting to retreat. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin 🧪 🔭

Humans have long explored the world and transported goods by sea. This episode of Big Picture Science is about what we learn from ocean journeys that never reached their destinations. We go diving to “Shipwrecks” on the next @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪 #podcast Listen here: bit.ly/4cU0kcd

#PPOD: Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s JWST combine to reveal an otherworldly view of the star-forming region IC 348. In this image released on July 23, 2025, X-rays from Chandra are red, green, and blue, while infrared data from Webb are pink, orange, and purple.

@dagomardegroot.bsky.social has a new book coming out this month. "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean" is a reimagining of the solar system and its influence on history. In this video, Professor Degroot explains how the Earth records its past and how the history of environmental changes... 🧪

The SETI Institute announced today that @calacademy.bsky.social has awarded its highest honor, the Fellows Medal, to Dr. Jill Tarter, SETI Institute co-founder and Bernard M. Oliver Chair Emerita for SETI at the SETI Institute... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬