Dale Andersen’s Antarctic Field Season 15 February 2026 UPDATE #13 Diving Under the Ice At Lake Untersee www.seti.org/news/dale-an...

Scientists have revived microscopic worms frozen in Siberian permafrost for roughly 46,000 years, revealing how life can survive extreme cold through cryptobiosis. Simon Steel spoke with evolutionary biologist Philipp Schiffer about the discovery. 🧪 🔭 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/life-af...

#PPOD: This stunning image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg Nebula, sculpted by freshly ejected stardust. Located approximately 1000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Egg Nebula features a central star... 🧪 🔭

Dr. Ross Beyer studies planetary surfaces, working on ways to quantitatively analyze the meter-scale topography and surface roughness via remote sensing. This work has been used to help plan landing sites on Mars and the Moon. 🧪 🔭 #Geoscience #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens

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 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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

#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. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Learn more:

#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. 🧪 Learn more:

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... 🧪 🔭

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

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. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ❤️ Get your copy:

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! 🧪 🔭 Read more:

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-...

#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...

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. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#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:

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. 🧪

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. 🧪 🔭 Learn more:

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

#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 🧪 🔭

This weekend, February 6-8, 2026, Death Valley is holding its annual Dark Sky Festival. Friday night, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM, in the Furnace Creek Visitor Center Auditorium, SETI Institute CEO Bill Diamond will give a talk entitled... 🧪 🔭

Dale Andersen’s Antarctic Field Season UPDATE #12 1 February 2026: Drilling Diving Holes Read the full update: www.seti.org/news/dale-an... 🧪

In this week's #SETILive, Simon chatted with Caitlin Ahrens from NASA Goddard about the upcoming (and now delayed) #ArtemisII mission and the two experiments researching the effects of radiation on astronauts. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/fEKIYiK... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Dr. Andrew Lincowski works with Dr. Victoria Meadows on simulating and characterizing terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres. He is the current developer of the Virtual Planetary Laboratory 1D climate model (initially developed by Dr. David Crisp and Prof. Tyler Robinson). #NotJustAliens 🧪 🔭

This month’s stories highlight how SETI Institute scientists combine rigorous analysis with curiosity, whether working alongside citizen astronomers, refining the identification of technosignatures, or improving the precision of radio observations. 🧪 🔭 Full stories: www.seti.org/news/seti-in...

#PPOD: Deep Space Station 15, one of the 112-foot antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, looks skyward, with the stars of the Milky Way overhead, in September 2025. 🧪 🔭

The latest talk in the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures is now available, professionally recorded, on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3gj... New Developments about Dark Energy and Building the Largest Telescope in the World With Prof. Robert Kirshner 🧪 🔭

#PPOD: Overview of a swirling green phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 in July 2018. Every summer, phytoplankton spread across the northern basins of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, with blooms spanning... 🧪

Dr. Kai Yang is a solar physics researcher focused on the Sun's dynamic activity. His work investigates the mechanisms of coronal heating, the complex magnetic topology that structures the corona, and the instabilities that trigger solar and stellar flares. 🧪 🔭 #Heliophysics #SETI #NotJustAliens

#PPOD: This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows an outcrop with finely layered rocks within the "Murray Buttes" region on lower Mount Sharp. The image was taken on Sept. 8, 2016. 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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Now in the asteroid catalogue: 354903 Shostak - ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app... @setiinstitute.bsky.social

Next #SETILive: Back to the Moon 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 TODAY, 2 February, 12:00 pm PST In today's SETI Live, host Simon Steel is joined by Dr. Caitlin Ahrens, assistant research scientist at NASA Goddard, to explore how Artemis II will prepare the way for future astronaut missions. WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/q19OiRq

Dale Andersen’s Antarctic Field Season 🧪 UPDATE #10 21 January 2026: Lake Untersee Base Camp Weather UPDATE #11 24 January 2026: Lake Untersee Base Camp Weather Conditions and Forecast Read the full updates: www.seti.org/news/dale-an...

#PPOD: This ESO image represents an unexpected full-circle moment. The depicted object, known as Ve 7–27, was long believed to be a planetary nebula — the end phase of a sun-like star’s life. But ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has shown that it’s actually a still-forming baby star. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

A worm frozen in Siberian permafrost for 46,000 years was revived — and lived. On SETI Live, Simon Steel talks with evolutionary biologist Philipp Schiffer about cryptobiosis, genetic survival strategies, and what this discovery tells us about the extremes life can endure… on Earth and beyond. 🧊🧬 🧪

#PPOD: A snapshot taken a second before a powerful M-class solar flare was unleashed from the Sun on 30 September 2024 – as seen in unprecedented detail by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission. 🧪 🔭

Dr. Lauren Sgro is a Postdoctoral Fellow focused on exoplanet research, working with citizen scientists to observe exoplanet transits through the Unistellar Network. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #Exoplanets #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens

On the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, we remember the seven astronauts who lost their lives and honor their courage, curiosity, and commitment to exploration. Credit: NASA Read more: www.seti.org/news/remembe...

TONIGHT 🧪 🔭 #bayarea On Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, at 7 pm (PST), Dr. Robert Kirshner (Thirty-Meter Telescope Obs.) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled: “Discovering Dark Energy and New Developments in our Understanding"