NightLife in Space: Other Earths

Other Earths are out there, and tonight, NightLife brings in experts to talk about the missions and spacecrafts currently on the search for exoplanets and life beyond Earth.

Live Talks: Begin Transmission
African Hall

• At 7:00 PM, Join us as Maren Hunsberger (Seeker) interviews Dr. Liz Warren of the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory to learn about the I.S.S.’s unique extreme environment for a variety of sciences and research.
• At 8:00 PM, Find out what Earth’s own extremophiles can teach us about what other-worldly life forms might be like with a talk from NASA astrobiologist Penny Boston.
• At 9:00 PM, Catch a talk from Franck Marchis of the SETI Institute on what it takes to detect and characterize exoplanets.

Live Talk: New Worlds
Science Today
8:30 PM

• Learn about the formation of exoplanet systems with Megan Ansdell, postdoc at UC Berkeley’s Center for Integrative Planet Studies (CIPS).

The View From Here
Living Roof
8:00 - 10:00 PM

• Ever stare off into space? Try doing it with Unistellar's new eVscope, a first-of-its-kind compact telescope that provides crisp and detailed views of galaxies, nebulae, and comets thanks to its light-amplification technology.

Other Earths Showcase
Project Lab
All Evening

• Learn about NASA’s Ames Center for Exoplanet Studies and hear from UC Berkeley researcher Victor Reyes-Umana on how anaerobic microbes on Earth might actually mimic life in extraterrestrial environments.