01 July 2015
Ceres, Dawn, mysterious bright spots, and exploring the solar system
...shape has certainly gotten some people excited about the possibility of alien life having once dwelled on Ceres. While that scenario is...why Ceres looks the way it does. And while shiny alien pyramids are highly unlikely, the one thing that is obvious ...
29 September 2015
Mars contamination fears: excitement over RSLs also inspires caution
...the 2020s – underscore perfectly why our rules for protecting alien environments must drastically evolve. As The New York Times ... of Mars, which, in turn, could potentially lead us to alien life. The reason why the robots cannot travel there has to ...
01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
... current technology and the best example we have of what an alien atmosphere might look like is based on our own. Ozone for...explains Carone. "We all knew from the beginning that the hunt for alien life will be a challenge, as it turns out, we are only...
19 May 2021
Scientists unexpectedly find heavy metal vapour in comets throughout our Solar System, and beyond
...have detected gaseous nickel in the cold atmosphere of 2I/Borisov; the first alien comet to visit our Solar System. “At first we had a hard... a peek into the chemical make-up of the alien planetary system it originated from, but also shows that...
15 June 2020
The Contact Paradox
...search for signals that might have been transmitted by an alien civilisation. He didn’t find any, but that hasn’t... and best chance to make a lasting impression on the alien”. Crucial indeed, especially considering the need to distance ourselves from...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...? The development of cosmic science? Protection against asteroids? Colonising the Moon or Mars? Perhaps the search for alien civilisations? This author believes that only ‘the road to Mars’ provides the answer to all four global...
