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We are an international community engaged in building a sustainable future and nurturing scientific interest among the public. Our mission is to explore life as a universal phenomenon and empower the next generation of scientists.

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Hot blob beneath Appalachians formed when Greenland split from North America — and it's heading to New York A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to where it is today at a rate of 12 miles per million years, scientists have fou...

A “hot blob” of rock under the Appalachian Mountains wasn’t left over from when North America split from Africa 180 million years ago, as once thought. New research shows it formed about 80 million years ago when Greenland broke away from North America.

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

31.07.2025 15:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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White Dwarf stars are dead, but they still feed... on planets Observations show a lot of these stars are actually zombies. Also: moving an Earth-threatening asteroid just got a bit harder

Zombie stars feed off their children. And it happens a *lot*.

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31.07.2025 14:57 — 👍 68    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 3
Antarctica, Meteorites, Asteroids, & the Building Blocks of Life with Dr. Sara Russell! (NASA LIVE)
YouTube video by NASA Astrobiology Antarctica, Meteorites, Asteroids, & the Building Blocks of Life with Dr. Sara Russell! (NASA LIVE)

An all new episode of #AskAstrobio goes live today at 10:00 Pacific Time!

Join in to learn more from meteoriticist Dr. Sara Russell about meteorites, asteroids, sample return with OSIRIS-REx, the upcoming MMX mission, and more!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYc2...

27.03.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The @bluemarblespace.bsky.social Young Scientist Program is one of the best opportunities on the planet for early career scholars to participate in research and training in #scicomm and ethics. Check out our project to make videos with Sciworthy!

Applications are now open!

bmsis.org/ysp/projects/

04.03.2025 16:20 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Software engineer or bioinformatician?

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17.12.2024 20:54 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
View jobs at Blue Marble Space We are a US-based international non-profit that promotes cooperative exploration of space, examines life as a planetary process, and enables a sustainable...

NASA GeneLab is looking for a Bioinformatics Program Developer to join the Data Processing team. In this role, you'll work with cutting-edge -omics data from space biology experiments, develop workflows, and analyze critical data that supports human space exploration.

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18.12.2024 18:58 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Hello, BlueSky!

We're the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science (BMSIS), a global collective of scientists exploring life's mysteries and our place in the cosmos. From astrobiology to climate science, we're on a mission to understand our universe and share that knowledge with you.

03.12.2024 20:59 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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