July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... central project to ensure the sustainable, inclusive and ethical evolution of the solar eco-system. Our hope is that .... Frank’s book, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, is considered to be a seminal work in the field of...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... emerged within the framework of science, and that complicated biological information may have emerged by step-by-step evolution from an abiotic world. However, no such convincing path of abiogenesis has been found. Recently it has been shown...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
..., from the formation of stars and planets to the evolution of galaxies and clusters. The authors describe how new research...address the role of magnetic fields in star formation and galaxy evolution. At the scales of dense cores (fractions of a parsec)...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... space economy and what roles do both the government sector and commercial space have to play in their evolution? For a successful economic ecosystem to thrive, two things must be present - supply and demand. Supply in a deep space...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
...the crystals within those rocks, and how the Moon’s comparatively simple evolution, and lower gravity, provides a test of a new idea ... hot and fiery one. The vast majority of lunar evolution occurred in the first billion years of its existence. During...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... for Germany. At the same time, the Moon is a nearby location where we can gain knowledge about the evolution of the Solar System and is also a potential platform for space exploration. ESA German astronaut Alexander Gerst...
