09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
... worlds in other systems are clones of our own rocky planet? In the first steps to deriving the compositional diversity of small rocky planets, models recently constructed by researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA...
26 June 2020
Giant ‘Exotica’ catalogue boosts search for alien life
... to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, released its innovative catalogue of ‘Exotica’ this week. It contains a diverse list of objects of potential interest to astronomers searching for technosignatures, which might be a tell-tale sign...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... noticed that the way of thinking I have ‘promoted’ here, namely in terms of socially shared practices in all their diversity and complexity, is easily applicable to a wide range of large-scale issues such as deep space exploration and, closer...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... their reproductive life, maximising the capacity for genetic diversity in the first generation born on the ship. The...allowed). After a few hundred years it becomes much more diverse but ultimately the number of available partners becomes ever smaller...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... generally contains organic material due to the abundant and diverse array of life on Earth. In contrast, lunar ...both globally and locally) varied substantially, indicating a highly diverse upper surface on the Moon. From a scientific perspective...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... of the space industry. Since its inception in 2015, STEAMSPACE has averaged 60 percent female enrolment, and high diversity in ethnicity and economic background. Part of the STEAMSPACE mission is to break down those barriers that have prevented...
