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. ...
30 November 2020
Researchers discover solid phosphorus in comet 67P
... emitted from the comet’s inner coma and collected by COSIMA, have identified a key element essential for life on Earth; phosphorus. Phosphorus is vital as it is used in the creation of DNA, cell membranes, and is required by all living organisms...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
..., as some would suggest, to pretend that images of Earth brought to us by American astronauts journeying to the Moon gave...telecom satellites, all of which have revolutionised daily life on Earth. With programmes like Copernicus and Galileo, Europe ...