The PLANETS Foundation: Looking for Life in the Universe
18th Nov, 2016
PLANETS Foundation: https://planets.life SETI isn't the only game in town that is dedicated to searching for and finding life in the universe. An international team of professors, astrophysicists, engineers and scientists from 6 countries around th
Future in Space: Beautiful Ballooning... And More
21st Oct, 2016
Live chat will be here when live: http://deepastronomy.com/live While the world’s space agencies extend humanity’s reach into space with science satellites of all kinds, generations of scientists have carried out cutting-edge research from high in t
SOFIA’s Flight to the Stars: NASA’s Airborne Astronomy Program
16th Sep, 2016
Sign up for our newsletter to be notified of future hangouts: http://deepastronomy.com/ Track SOFIA on Flight Aware: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA747 SOFIA STEM Outreach: https://www.sofia.usra.edu/public Topic: While the world’s space
Living Earths: The Astronomical Answer to “Are We Alone?"
20th Aug, 2016
NASA has begun four concept studies of major space observatories that could launch sometime in the coming couple decades. In this fourth in our series on these studies, we discuss the Habitable Exoplanet (HabEx) concept. HabEx is a design for a high
Ripples In Space: Gravitational Waves in Our Future
18th Jun, 2016
After decades of effort, the era of gravitational wave astronomy is finally here. Ground-based instruments like LIGO have opened up humanity's ears to the ripples of spacetime. But the LIGO results represent just one slice of the gravitational wave