Penny Boston has a few more weeks to enjoy kicking around the caves in her current post as Director of Cave and Karst Science at New Mexico Tech before beginning her new job as the Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute on May 31. She took time out of her spelunking to chat with WIRED about her new job, the globetrotting job of a cave scientist, and what life might look like on other worlds.

Read the Wired article here.