July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... inhabitants from radiation. Speaking at the Smithsonian Institution in 2016, he said: “I wish there were a trillion humans in the solar system. Think how cool that would be. You’d have a thousand Einsteins at any given moment – and more. There...
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...
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...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... to imagine, but we now think we have found in the PSRs a time capsule of the history of the volatiles in our solar system. To understand how this occurred we have to start at the beginning. The lunar magnetosphere protecting its tenuous atmosphere...
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 ...
03 October 2018
Newly discovered far-flung object supports Planet X existence
... it seemed an outlandish idea at the time, the duo proposed the presence of an unknown planet on the periphery of the Solar System that was keeping these orbits in place. Planet X as it became known, is thought to be a sub-Neptune sized planet but...
