May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... across the many worlds of our solar system, and when the vast resources of our solar system enable a ‘post-scarcity’ society...., indirectly, the composition of other bodies in the solar system. We know about the ice-bearing, permanently shadowed ...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... not only gives us clues as to the formation and evolution of our own planet but of habitable conditions in the solar system and beyond. Complex atmosphere A day on Titan lasts a lengthy 16 Earth-days and it orbits Saturn at a considerable distance...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... world would be a better place. Just as we are reaching the threshold of leaving low Earth orbit to populate the solar system, are we also now entering a ‘post-overview effect world’, in which humanity is increasingly aware of its role as astronauts...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
... power is no longer held back by high transportation cost. Large probes are visiting most objects of interest in the solar system, and space telescopes larger than terrestrial ones are enabling breakthrough discoveries. There are wide environmental...
November 2026
Seeing Earth differently - The Dorothy Project and its search for the Overview Effect
... described the same feeling when he asked us to look back at our planet from the outer reaches of the Solar System, in the famous Pale Blue Dot image captured by Voyager 1 from beyond Neptune. Then there is Earthrise, the...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
... solely responsible for the KPg extinction event, but that a giant molecular cloud passing through the solar system led to an environmental catastrophe of Earth, driven by an enhanced flux of cosmic dust particles and cosmic rays, which caused...
