October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... a small icy moon of Saturn, is currently seen as one of the prime candidates for hosting microbial life in the solar system as it appears to fulfill the basic requirements for it hosting life: a subglacial ocean in the liquid state that is in direct...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
...orbiting around a sun-like star beyond our own solar system: 51 Pegasi b. For the first time, speculation... visit it ourselves, or will we forever remain prisoners of our own solar system with its single life-bearing world? For those of us who want ...
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...
