Celebrating 25 years of covering countless advances in space exploration and development astronomySpace.com is Live Virtual Panel We discuss some of the most impactful findings and what may be coming next.
The discussion was moderated by Space.com Editor-in-Chief Tariq Malik, and included three panelists: Dr. Sarah Seager, astrophysicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Dr. John Mulchay, director of the Carnegie Observatories, which oversees the Giant Magellan Telescope; and astrophysicist Dr. James McCain. Tom MarshburnSierra Space’s chief medical officer and former National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) He is a three-time astronaut.
The panel, held on July 17 to celebrate Space.com’s 25th anniversary, highlighted achievements in the following areas: Exoplanets the study, The Quest for Lifeobservations of the early universe and human spaceflight, and new technologies that could open the door to further discoveries.
Rendering of a space station in orbit with multiple spacecraft docked. (Image credit: Future/All About Space Magazine, logo_ Hannah Rose Brayshaw-Williams)
“We now know that there are thousands of planets around Earth. Performer“There must be trillions of them in our galaxy alone,” Seager says. “So, [of] Its transfer from science fiction to scientific fact is the great achievement of the past quarter century.”