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Summer is just around the corner, and with it comes the traditional scientific conferences. This summer, I ended up skipping on Cool Stars 23, which will take place in Tokyo, Japan. I would love to be there, but it was a bit difficult to justify it given that I already have two consecutive conferences in Europe and this would add a third one. I’m the kind of traveler that starts getting homesick around the 10th day away, so three weeks is too much for me. However, my STScI colleague Hannah Diamond-Lowe will be there to give a talk about the Rocky Worlds DDT program, so go have a chat with her if you’re attending Cool Stars this year. ...

Earlier this year, the Space Telescope Science Institute issued a call for white papers named Building a Roadmap for Hubble science into the 2030s. As you may know, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched in the early 1990s and NASA has gone above and beyond to keep it going for more than 30 years. However, there are two main limiting factors to keep HST running: one is funding and the other one is that the telescope is slowly infalling into the Earth, and it is predicted to reentry the atmosphere in the first half of the next decade. ...

I am briefly advertising the open call for abstracts and financial support to attend this excellent workshop organized by Adriana Valio and colleagues (including myself as part of the Scientific Organizing Committee). We invite researchers and students to submit abstracts for contributed talks and poster presentations for the international workshop “From Stars to Life: Stellar Impacts on Planetary Atmospheres, Habitability, and Biosignatures Detection” hosted at the International Institute of Physics (IIP) in Natal, Brazil, from November 2–6, 2026. This event will convene astronomers, astrobiologists, and planetary scientists to explore the critical links between stellar activity, exoplanets atmospheres, and the potential for life on distant worlds. ...