Events Overview
STScI hosts colloquia, lectures, meetings, symposia, and workshops that cover a broad array of topics of interest to the astronomical community as well as the general public. From this page, you can find current, upcoming, and past events of interest.
Use the filter bar below to search by specific event criteria including Type, Mission, Keyword, and/or Date. Click the Apply button to generate the query. Information and resources for each event can be found by clicking on the "Read More" link. All times listed are Eastern Time, unless otherwise noted.
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Let Us Calculate: Humanity and the Project of AI
February 10, 2026 ColloquiaAlongside astonishing advances in AI capabilities, a growing trend is emerging under the rubric of ethics and the “alignment problem,” as a response to the limitations, biases, and failures ...
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Little Red Dots as "Black Hole Stars"
February 11, 2026 ColloquiaPerhaps the most stunning surprise revealed by JWST yet is a class of compact, red, high-redshift sources (z~2-9) found in virtually every image the telescope takes. The sheer numbers of these "Little ...
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Webb Office Hours
February 12, 2026 Community EventsThe JWST User Community is invited to call into Webb Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a team of STScI JWST experts via WebEx. We welcome questions about the JWST Pipeline, calibration, ...
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Finding Targets for Habitable Worlds Observer: Extremely Precise Radial Velocity Surveys and the Hunt for Earth Analogs
February 18, 2026 ColloquiaIn 2019 the NASA-NSF Extremely Precise Radial Velocity (EPRV) Working Group developed a roadmap to discover and measure the masses of temperate terrestrial planets orbiting Sun-like stars. Such a ...
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Discovering the Least-Massive Brown Dwarfs Known with the James Webb Space Telescope
February 24, 2026 LecturesSpeaker: Dr. Kevin Luhman (Pennsylvania State University) Stars exist across a wide range of masses, some more massive than the Sun and some less massive. If a star is less massive than roughly 8% ...
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Supernova Remnants: Laboratories for Extreme Physics and Cosmic Calibration
February 25, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Danny Milisavljevic (Purdue University)
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Webb Office Hours
February 26, 2026 Community EventsThe JWST User Community is invited to call into Webb Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a team of STScI JWST experts via WebEx. We welcome questions about the JWST Pipeline, calibration, ...
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Giant Planets to Terrestrial Worlds from the Outside In
March 4, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Brendan Bowler (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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Language AI in the Space Sciences
March 9 through 12, 2026 WorkshopsJoin us for the second annual Language AI in the Space Sciences workshop, an interdisciplinary gathering exploring the role of natural language processing and artificial intelligence in space science and ...
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Webb Office Hours
March 12, 2026 Community EventsThe JWST User Community is invited to call into Webb Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a team of STScI JWST experts via WebEx. We welcome questions about the JWST Pipeline, calibration, ...
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Searching for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy
March 25, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Maria Charisi (Washington State University)
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Webb Office Hours
March 26, 2026 Community EventsThe JWST User Community is invited to call into Webb Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a team of STScI JWST experts via WebEx. We welcome questions about the JWST Pipeline, calibration, ...
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Stirring the Pot: How a Galaxy Quenches Star Formation Without Removing its Fuel
April 1, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Katey Alatalo (STScI)
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Results from the Dark Energy Survey and Looking Ahead
April 8, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Chihway Chang (The University of Chicago)
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Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes VIII: Enriching the Universe: From Primordial Nucleosynthesis to Exoplanet Atmospheres
April 13 through 16, 2026 ConferencesWe are delighted to announce the latest in the series of ESA-sponsored conferences, in collaboration with STScI, which highlight the scientific impact of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. With ...