Learn about Mars and Perseverance with Mitch Schulte
Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed the very beginning of a planetary system forming around a distant star....
A/Prof Carol A. Oliver PhD, MSciCom, SFHEA, University of New South Wales Carol Oliver is an Associate Professor with...
Peggy Whitson’s first space mission took place in 2002 aboard the International Space Station’s Expedition 5 as a flight...
In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space when she launched aboard the Soviet space program’s Vostok...
World Space Week 2021 is about women in space. We interviewed the Executive Director of the World Space Week...
Learn about MethaneSAT, New Zealand's first official space mission as a country. The New Zealand Astrobiology Network interviewed Dr Peter...
Thanks to your support, one lucky school from the Carterton District gets a Cosmic Star Safari!
What to feed to your basil plants (aka fertilisers) and what has that got to do with stars.
When you submit a report or a poster you get in the draw to win a planetarium visit to...
Give your basil plenty of warmth and light. It grows well in a warm environment, with the optimum...
The first five days of the space basil went great, the plants are healthy and grow well.
How to set up your own growth chamber for your seeds, at your school on Earth.
The plant chamber for basil and starting the experiment. A brief overview of how basil is grown on the...
Competition Terms and Conditions of entry These terms and conditions relate to the Cosmic Star Safari Competition (the Competition)....
Can we really grow potatoes on Mars like astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) does in "The Martian"?
Would you live on Mars? Come and check out our Mars exhibition at Stonehenge Aotearoa and decide for yourself!...
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest artificial satellite in Earth’s orbit (and in space that we know...
The Solar Orbiter (SolO) is a satellite that was launched in February 2020 by the European Space Agency. It...
BepiColombo is a two-satellite cooperation between the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on a...
The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites are involved in monitoring the global (and space) climate to provide...
Happy World Space Week! Today we talk about the Hubble telescope. 4-10 October every year we celebrate space. In...
Happy World Space Week 2020. Today's post is about mankind's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1.
Happy World Space Week 2020. This year's theme is about satellites. Our first stop, the Moon.
Professor Ian Hawes and Professor Kathy Campbell about the recent Venus discovery.
Professor Kathy Campbell, is in conversation with Kathryn from Nine to Noon to talk about fire science and what...
The First Nation (indigenous) peoples of Aotearoa (New Zealand) are known as the Māori. Māori have an oral tradition...
Students from Oxford Area School who participated in Synergies in Space Mission to Mars last year have the opportunity...
New Zealand Astrobiology Network in collaboration with Mars Society New Zealand, Mars Society Australia and the University of Canterbury...
The first international astrobiology conference in New Zealand, AAM2018 was an extraordinary opportunity for engagement. In addition to the...
KATHY CAMPBELL: SEPTEMBER 3, 2019, 97.53 MB Tuesday, September 3, 2019 Do you wake up and ponder about the grand...
Hosted by Te Ao Mārama – Centre for Fundamental Inquiry, this year's Vice-Chancellor's Lecture Series 2019 at University of...
Since 2019, New Zealand Astrobiology Network is the National Coordinator of the World Space Week in New Zealand, a...
We are at MOTAT today, for their annual STEM Fair along with a fresh lineup of scientists, technologists, engineers,...
Hans Huybrighs from Max Plank Institute is visiting Wellington. He will give a talk for the New Zealand Astrobiology...
Democratizing Access to Space: Co-creating a Space Industry in Aotearoa for Future Space Exploration
An overview of the state of NZ space industry today and why it’s the best place to prototype a...
Daniella Scalice, Education and Communication Lead for the NASA Astrobiology Program is coming to New Zealand in October. In 2005 she...
New Zealand's first international conference in astrobiology took place in Rotorua on the 24th, 25 and 26th of June...
Interview by Massey University Radio Control
Abstracts are now accepted for consideration as talks or posters for TE AO MĀRAMA MEETING - free registration. When:...
Dr Angélica Anglés attended the Astrobiology Australasia Meeting 2018 in June 2018 and also the Synergies in Space Mission...
This week, the European Space Agency announced that radar data collected by ESA’s Mars Express point to a pond...
Like many, Ian came to Astrobiology by accident. A career-long research focus on Antarctic lakes, a network of collaborators...
Mitch Schulte is a Program Scientist with the Mars Exploration Program in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington,...
An astrobiology conference has kicked off in Rotorua today giving students the opportunity to learn more about the possibility...
Dr. Lindsay Hays, Deputy Program Scientist for NASA’s Astrobiology Program was in New Zealand in 2018.
NASA MSL rover discovers methane on Mars, what does it mean? Listen to NZAN Professor Kathy Campbell talking on...
Europe launches The European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) at the recommendations of the AstroMap Report.
Martin was trained in Canada, receiving his PhD in 1992, and then moved to Australia in 1994 to commence research...
Professor Kathy Campbell of University of Auckland and Chair of the Board of trustees for the New Zealand Astrobiology...
Haritina Mogoșanu is the Executive Director of the New Zealand Astrobiology Network (NZAN) and a research scientist for the...
A new theory that addresses how life arose on Earth, proposes that it originated in an intimate partnership between...
Life might have colonised land 580 million years earlier than previously thought - and this has also implications for...
Please join us ‘down under’ for one, the other, or both events in mid-year 2018 Event 1 - Astrobiology Australasia...
NZ scientists seek to unravel the evolutionary origins of DNA. Professor Anthony Poole from University of Auckland has been...
AbSciCon2017 AbSciCon2017 was held in Mesa, Arizona with scientists, students, and educators attending this conference to discuss and share...
I really enjoyed seeing this newest movie made by 'The Universe' in which astrobiologists, discuss how life might have...
The Space & Science Festival is back for 2017! Now with three amazing events across three weekends in the...
A team, including Professor Kathy Campbell, attended a workshop sponsored by NASA and JPL on 8-10 February 2017 in...
Join the 2nd Space and Astrobiology Symposium at the Canterbury University's Westport Field Station, 9-11 April 2017. The symposium...
The Astrobiology Science Conference 2017 (AbSciCon 2017) will be held April 24–28, 2017 in Mesa, Arizona at the Mesa...
Fame, neglect, demotion and love. What a dramatic decade it has been for Pluto. From its discovery in 1930...
Where: Stardome Observatory, Auckland When: 8PM, Monday, 14th of November 2016 On November the 14th, Professor Kathy Campbell will give a...
Nineteen top New Zealand researchers and scholars have been announced as Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand...
Professor Kathy Campbell and Mark Sainsbury comment on Professor Brian Cox's new article on the Fermi paradox
Europa has been in the news lately, with NASA announcing a press conference way in advance to spark our...
SOFIA, the mighty space telescope, the most wonderful machine ever invented by humankind is back in New Zealand for...
Professor Kathy Campbell was invited to talk with Alison Mau on the Paul Henry Show about the impact on...
I cannot perceive the scale of the universe, but I can perceive the scale of a jumbo jet as...
Richard loves to talk about space and the word astrobiology is no foreign to him. I really hope that...
New Zealand has all it needs to become a leading centre for astrobiology research: good universities, excellent scientists, an...
We’re getting good at finding exoplanets, but trying to find evidence of life is a little bit more complicated...
My daughter asked me why imagination is more important than knowledge… Whilst I have, at the time, tried to...
The New NASA #Astrobiology site features NZ Astrobiology Initiative under the Organizations' Map.
Join Professor Kathy Campbell in discussing the latest NASA data received from MAVEN about the atmosphere on Mars.
Scientists look for pattern recognition when exploring how the natural world or universe work. Something looks to be astray...
Rocks and minerals are vital for unlocking the mysteries of life’s origin and for guiding the search for life...
The scientists, after looking for more than four years with Kepler to a patch in the sky located in...
An interview with Professor Kathleen Campbell – University of Auckland, about a recent study undertaken around Chernobyl, which highlighted...
To go or not to go; that is the question. Me, I vote yes, but since we cannot go...
Haritina Mogosanu and Jesse Mulligan from Radio New Zealand are discussing the importance of the discovery of liquid water...
Where there is water, there is life.
For the last two days the scientific world is bubbling at the announcement of NASA that something of a...
Astrobiology: Understanding Life in the Universe is an introductory text which explores the structure of living things, the formation...
Joshua Krissansen-Totton When I was in primary school, I remember pouring through numerous space factoid books – the kind that...
Mutant Silurian plankton indicate oceanic anoxia spread and metals poisoning in the sea ... 420 million years ago. Not...
The Icebreaker Life mission - which will search for life on Mars - is due for review this September,...
The last few months have been remarkable for planetary exploration. We have found a planet about twice the size...
Professor Kathleen A. Campbell, School of Environment, The University of Auckland The interaction of ancient organisms with their surrounding...
The next Astrobiology Australasia Meeting to be held from 10 - 12 July 2016 in Perth, Western Australia. The...
First Announcement THE ASTROPHYSICS OF PLANETARY HABITABILITY Conference in Vienna, Austria, February 8 – 12, 2016 http://habitability.univie.ac.at Dear colleagues,...
Learn about astrobiology by watching the recordings from the XIII-th International School of Astrobiology "Josep Comas i Solà", which...
"Today, Earth is a little less lonely," Kepler researcher Jon Jenkins said. According to NASA, the new planet discovered is...
Shifted from the realm of science-fiction to the reality of science, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence got an...
New Zealand is solving some of the most captivating mysteries within the universe. One of the many research facilities...
"ET life would simply be ... logical..."
This is why I came so far. To see some of the oldest rocks on Earth, preserved within an...
30th of June was chosen to mark the anniversary of the 1908 Siberian Tunguska event. On June 30, 1908, an...
Steve Pointing is Professor of Applied Ecology at Auckland University of Technology and director of the university’s Institute for...
The XIII International School of Astrobiology "Josep Comas i Solà" will begin Monday, 29 June 2015 at Palacio de...
In 2013, I had the great opportunity to interview the Chief Science Advisor of SOFIA, Erick Becklin whilst...
Are we entering the Sixth Global Mass Extinction, caused by cumulative human impacts on the planet? New research (Ceballos...
Two of two submitted posters for AbSciCon 2015 are at the conference! These are the SBNZ 2015 poster and SBNZ 2015 Education...
Professor Amy Fletcher – Policy and social implications of SETI, astrobiology and space exploration. Amy Fletcher is an Associate...
How do we define life – or, in fact, can it be defined? So far, we cannot...
We argue that, even though New Zealand is a small nation, our scientists cannot aim too high nor stretch...
"I have chosen New Zealand's gas hydrate deposits for two important reasons: one is that here we can study...
In June, Dr Ian Hawes, from Christchurch’s Canterbury University will be part of a team working at the Pavilion...
In January 2015, the New Zealand Astrobiology Initiative (NZAI) organised an engaging, 6-day expedition for Kiwi educators and researchers,...
There has been much speculation that there may be life in oceans of water under the ice layer of...
New Zealand Astrobiology Initiative would like to thank the following organisations for their generous support, without which this project...
New Zealand teachers will join a NASA Astrobiologists and New Zealand scientists in the North Island this January, 2015,...
Astrobiology, is the study of life’s potential in the Universe. It also studies the origin, evolution and history of...
It is for the first time in our history when we, humankind, can effectively act to ensure our survival...
A new group of the Royal Astronomical Society (RASNZ) has been established to foster the local astrobiology community. The Astrobiology...