December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... have brought other material. Of special interest here are organics that could have sparked the emergence of life on Earth. We are therefore looking for heavy organic molecules up to amino acids. COSAC on Philae should have been able...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
.... Moreover, it will be the biggest and most important shift in the trajectory of the human species and the life of Earth itself since we became a species. A garden setting inside a giant dome on a future Mars settlement, by artist Bryan Versteeg...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
...people regain the pleasure of eating food. Tourist in space The aim was to find a relationship between life in space and life on Earth connecting the two environments (di Agostina Issolio, Aleksandra Obradovic and Barbara Lopes de Oliveira) This drew...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... planetary exploration is planetary protection, i.e. the need to not contaminate any possible habitable environments with microbial life from Earth. This is of great concern as, unfortunately, scientists have found that there are microbes that can...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... about tackling issues and unveiling patterns in outer space – but today it’s very much becoming a tool to improve life here on Earth. For example, earlier this year the UK Space Agency granted Adaptix £1 million in funding to develop a pioneering...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... indicates, according to the key innovations that occurred for life on Earth which we expect to be generic. Our candidate list is the origin of life, photosynthesis, multicellularity, and technological civilization. The ExoLife Finder (ELF) telescope...
