Air & Space
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‘Game-changer’: Europe’s ExoMars rover armed with new life-testing tool
In a new paper published in the journal Astrobiology, Jacob Heinz, my colleague at the Technical University of Berlin, and I discuss ...
Have we already discovered life on Mars? And did we accidentally kill it?
In a recent opinion piece in Scientific American, former Viking Mars investigator Gil Levin fired up anew the argument over whether that ...
Water world: Does the evolution of intelligent life require land?
Exoplanets come in a variety of types, and so-called “water worlds”—planets with at least ten percent of their total mass ...
What are the odds that aliens might actually look similar to us?
In his new book, Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution, Charles Cockell from the University of Edinburgh makes the argument ...
Is speculation about alien life legitimate science? Or merely a distraction?
Speculation about extraterrestrials seems to be everywhere these days. [Recently] it was “Tabby’s Star” (more officially known as KIC 8462852), ...
