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A piece of meteorite inside a glass jar.

May 15, 2025

Georgia Tech Offers New Astrobiology Minor

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Ivan Allen College scholars will teach classes in the new minor.

May 2, 2025

Yuri's Day 2025: Shaping the Future of Space Research

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Hosted by Georgia Tech’s Space Research Initiative (SRI), Yuri’s Day serves as an annual celebration of space research across the Institute, the state of Georgia, and beyond.

Scientists want to use AI agents to study rock samples retrieved from Mars.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

May 2, 2025

AI scientist ‘team’ joins the search for extraterrestrial life

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Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have created a system that can perform autonomous research in astrobiology, the study of the origins of life in the Universe.

Trenton Gantt and Hugh (Ka Yui) Chen work together in the lab

May 1, 2025

Propelling Georgia Tech to the Final Frontier

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New space IRI and commercialization activities showcase space as an exciting destination for students and faculty.

An illustrative image of Earth with debris orbiting around it

April 14, 2025

Space Traffic and Trash: Policy Experts Work Toward a Sustainable Final Frontier

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From creating state-of-the-art simulations to advising industry leaders, Georgia Tech’s policy experts are making space safer and more navigable for everyone.

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

April 11, 2025

Georgia Tech Researchers Pioneer Eco-Friendly Building Materials for Earth and Mars

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A new study explores reconfigurable, sustainable construction materials that could transform how we build on this planet — and beyond.

March 4, 2025

Nunn School Launches New Space Policy Center

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The new Center seeks to expand the Nunn School's strengths in space policy.

February 28, 2025

New lunar sample research could help protect astronauts and uncover the origins of water on the moon

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New NASA-funded research by Georgia Tech offers fresh insights into the phenomenon of space weathering.

February 19, 2025

AE Professor Masatoshi Hirabayashi Studies Compelling Way to Deflect Asteroids From Earth

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A Georgia Tech study analyzes NASA’s DART mission and proposes an innovative approach for kinetic deflection.

February 14, 2025

Securing Tomorrow’s Autonomous Robots Today

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Assistant Professor Glen Chou is leading research to ensure the security and safety of future autonomous robots, which could one day fight wildfires, explore space, and assist in critical environments like nuclear reactors and hospitals.

a rendering of two CubeSats in space, beaming light

February 13, 2025

Turning to CubeSats in the Search for Life Thousands of Light-Years from Earth

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A new NASA-funded project will have Georgia Tech aerospace engineers developing new technology to one day study planets outside our solar system.

January 23, 2025

Georgia Tech Space Research Institute Begins Search for Executive Director

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The internal search will identify an inaugural executive director for the new Interdisciplinary Research Institute.

Students using handheld portable chemical analysis instrumentation analogous to those used on Mars.

December 6, 2024

In a Very Close Galaxy: How Georgia Tech Researchers Use Earth Analogs to Understand Space

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Georgia Tech researchers explore U.S. terrains to understand space and life on Earth.

'Oumuamua at the edges of our solar system (Artist's Rendition, NASA)

November 22, 2024

From Mars to the Stars: James Wray Wins Simons Fellowship to Study Interstellar Objects

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The research could transform how we understand extrasolar planets — without ever leaving our solar system.

Richard Agbeyibor, Flight Test Engineer, U.S. Air Force, sitting in a space exploration simulator.

November 11, 2024

Space Race: Georgia Tech’s Aspiring Astronauts

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Georgia Tech faculty, students, and recent grads share their stories about trying to become an astronaut, an aspiration that shaped their paths and continues to inspire their lives despite the challenging odds.

A pair of Smarticle robots from the lab of Prof. Dan Goldman. Earlier research from his group observed the arise of order in active matter from the physics of low rattling. (Photo Credit: Christa M. Ernst)

October 21, 2024

Rattling Physics with New Math

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Understanding and predicting self-organization, especially in systems that are out of equilibrium, like living things, is an enduring goal of statistical physics.

October 1, 2024

Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines Announces New Initiative Leads

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We hope that initiative leads will act as the “faculty face” of IRIM and communicate IRIM’s vision and activities to audiences both within and outside of Georgia Tech.

September 19, 2024

Award-Winning Algorithm Used on Mars Rover Helps Scientists on Earth See Data in a New Way

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Ph.D student Austin P. Wright wins a best paper runner-up award at an international conference for an algorithm used on the Mars Perseverance Rover than can be used in applications in earth science and other fields.

Three photos in hexagons - one group photo outside, one seminar presentation, and one of someone in a lab.

September 3, 2024

Research Centers Supported by the Space Research Initiative

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The Space Research Institute is the hub of all things space-related at Georgia Tech, and it includes three core centers contribute distinct interdisciplinary perspectives to studying space.

Ross Brockwell exiting the Mars Dune Alpha habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

July 31, 2024

A Yellow Jacket on Mars

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A Georgia Tech alum has emerged after living in a simulated Mars habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for the past year.