November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
...I got to lay the foundation for a whole new area of science. With thousands of exoplanets now confirmed, how do you define a... advocate for starshades - large structures we could deploy in space to block out starlight and allow us to directly image ...
20 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Asks and Answers: If Space is So Hard, Why Should We Go there?
...-breaking 200-Day Mission to the ISS. Helen Keen Presents a Humorous Look at How Science Fiction Inspires Space Science 3D Printing Our Future in Space and on Earth How to Make Intelligent Robots That Understand the World Aspire to Inspire Comparing...
25 September 2017
Boldly going in search of another pale blue dot
... was founded, according to its website, “to address highly compelling scientific questions through new approaches to developing space science missions while engaging the global community in the quest.” The Institute is also behind the SCIM mission...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... present or past form of life. The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) [1] defines five planetary protection categories with.... The EURO-CARES consortium is composed of planetary science researchers and curators, biosafety specialists, and engineers,...