October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...my LinkedIn network. If my anthropological fieldwork taught me anything, it was that arguing against human space exploration would alienate me from the space industry. But we have to make tough decisions as adults, don’t we? We have to choose to tell...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... to explore. How do you balance scientific caution with public enthusiasm when it comes to potential discoveries of alien life? Striking a balance between caution and enthusiasm is essential and it’s important to acknowledge that reported discoveries...
April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... or provenance. It is too easy to focus on the difficulties and hardships faced by those living day-to-day in a profoundly alien environment, as many doubters have. On Mars, that includes a daunting list: gravity 38 percent of Earth’s; air pressure...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... heat even faster, and we might have this particular temperature on the surface. [6 Most Likely Places for Alien Life in the Solar System] So we may be able to make some measurements that give us an indication indirectly of the various...
27 July 2015
Debating Kepler 452b, Yuri Milner, and the search for intelligent life
... time soon. In light of this, Yuri Milner’s generous $100 million donations to scientists on a quest to find a signal generated by alien life in the Milky Way seems like a particularly naive gesture – or does it? We’ve already written about how the...
04 August 2015
Pluto, Charon, Lovecraft, Tolkien and other geek culture staples we should use on new worlds
... Trek to Star Wars, from H.P. Lovecraft’s terrifying Cthulu to J.R.R. Tolkien’s equally terrifying Balrog. Joss Whedon and the Alien franchise are in there too. And Doctor Who. Of course. Plenty of people might scoff at the idea and...
