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...
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...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
...Well, it turns out that the same processes currently destroying life on Earth might actually create it on Mars. At least, that... itself. If some cataclysmic event was to wipe out life on Earth, they reason, everything worth anything would be gone. ...
03 August 2018
Plate tectonics not needed for life, but UV light is
... (MRC LMB) have identified a group of planets where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist. The type of light is ultraviolet (UV) light - the wavelength of light that burns your skin if you don...
