September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... before. A famous astrobiologist and one of my role models Lynn Rothschild said, “Alas, scientists have discovered that life on Earth has already done that - and has done so for billions of years.” Scientists have found extremophiles everywhere...
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...
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...
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...
