June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
...natural environments of these extraterrestrial bodies. Most importantly, the guidelines also help to preserve the terrestrial biosphere from possible contamination by alien material brought back by sample-return missions. Artist impression of the MMX...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...to repression: bringing every human being up to a living standard now enjoyed only by the most fortunate; protecting the biosphere from damage caused by transportation and industrial pollution; finding high quality living space for a world population...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
...for a millionfold increase in the energy available to organisms, and consequently increased the overall size of the Earth’s biosphere by this amount. Artist’s illustration of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), part of a new class of extremely...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
... of the nitrogen cycle, the mechanisms of oxygenation of the terrestrial atmosphere and their consequences on the biosphere and biogeochemical cycles in general. Pierre Pouzet is an associate professor in the LabISEN laboratory at ISEN, Carquefou...
02 January 2021
Life beneath glaciers is good news in the search for life on icy worlds
... can generate their own fixed carbon, they also don't need sunlight to do it like the rest of the biosphere that we're familiar with." This bodes well for scientists looking for life on other worlds, such as on the...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... the best prospects for finding and analysing atmospheres, surface chemistry and possibly even the fingerprints of a biosphere-the tentative signals of life." With a leap in precision measurement, Tuthill and colleagues are hoping that TOLIMAN...
