April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... we choose to remain confined to Earth or whether we develop long-term human settlements in space. People scattered across the solar system, much like the animals scattered across the Galapagos islands, could evolve into new types of humans...
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...
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...
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...
09 May 2018
First confirmed carbon-rich asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
... lurking within astronomers have spotted a relic of the inner primordial Solar System - the first of its kind to be confirmed so far ...strengthen theories about the dynamical evolution of the Solar System that describes how the planets ended up where ...
