October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... capable of supporting a known organism”. This definition takes a step further than a common definition used in space science: “a habitable environment is one capable of supporting liquid water”. The former definition considers not just the liquid...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... case for a period of life thriving on Mars. About the author Bill Farrand is a senior research scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He has a BA in Geology from Franklin & Marshall College and a MS and PhD in the Geosciences...
09 October 2015
First Cubesat from American Tribal College Sent into Space
BisonSat aims at developing skills in space science and engineering. The first cubesat built at a Native ...current and past,” he told NASA. “So all of our names [are] in space.” While Olson was aware that the project would have a great impact on the ...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
...and Voyager flybys, scientists already knew before the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe descended to its surface in January... exoplanets. She is Chair of the European Space Sciences Committee, of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection ...
10 February 2016
Space Science Sound System
...to build a library of instruments based on the sounds of space exploration and space research that help us imagine the worlds of spaceflight and science. With his impromptu “Space Science Sound System”, he remixed sounds of ESA’s technology, research...
19 April 2016
APSS 2016 Was Held in Beijing at the End of February
... interdisciplinary fields. The scope of APSS 2016 covered both theoretical and practical areas of astrophysics and space sciences; Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: theoretical astrophysics, high-energy astrophysics...
