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Professor Ian Hawes and Professor Kathy Campbell about the recent Venus discovery.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Professor Kathy Campbell of University of Auckland and Chair of the Board of trustees for the New Zealand Astrobiology...
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...
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...
Nineteen top New Zealand researchers and scholars have been announced as Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand...
SOFIA, the mighty space telescope, the most wonderful machine ever invented by humankind is back in New Zealand for...
I cannot perceive the scale of the universe, but I can perceive the scale of a jumbo jet as...
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.
Rocks and minerals are vital for unlocking the mysteries of life’s origin and for guiding the search for life...
To go or not to go; that is the question. Me, I vote yes, but since we cannot go...
The last few months have been remarkable for planetary exploration. We have found a planet about twice the size...
"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...
In 2013, I had the great opportunity to interview the Chief Science Advisor of SOFIA, Erick Becklin whilst...
Two of two submitted posters for AbSciCon 2015 are at the conference! These are the SBNZ 2015 poster and SBNZ 2015 Education...
There has been much speculation that there may be life in oceans of water under the ice layer of...
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...
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