June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
...moon an ideal target to search for biomarkers. Its habitability is also bolstered by the idea that if a liquid-water ocean on Titan is as geologically active as those on our planet, it might give rise to other Earth-like features such as hydrothermal...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
...exoplanets, but also characterising their properties such as atmosphere, ocean and surface. This has the potential to be even more... a planet’s green colouring comes from land. Compared to the ocean, land is a dry, sun-baked, nutrient poor, harsh place...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
...is almost the same size as Earth and probably had oceans at the beginning. But Venus orbits closer to the .... Instead it quickly spiralled into a greenhouse effect that erased its oceans and left a desert planet, coated with dense clouds of sulphuric ...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... covers Earth’s unowned natural resources, such as the oceans, the atmosphere and space). Eighteen annexes to the ... is not possible to install and maintain these over our vast ocean areas and difficult mountainous or polar regions. ADS-B does not ...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
...’s history, implying a low abiogenesis probability on Earth. And, although there is a chance that life might be lurking in subsurface oceans under the icy crust of Europa, we haven’t found it yet or found evidence of any other life outside Earth...
April 2025
Maximising returns to Earth - the infinite potential of space
...” – from rising temperatures to flooding and other extreme events” – a stark warning that everything is interconnected. “Land, air, ocean and space are not disjointed mutually exclusive domains, it’s all very holistic,” he said. “Year after year...
