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Lost in Space: Finding a Sense of Place in the Cosmos
This is a guest post by Sean McMahon, a PhD student in the School of Geosciences at the University of Aberdeen. Sean’s research applies geological perspectives and techniques to astrobiological...
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The Null Hypothesis: When Do We Declare a Barren World?
This is a guest post by Euan Monaghan, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Physical Sciences at The Open University, where he studies the habitability of the subsurface of Mars. You can...
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East Anglia’s Giant Purple Blob
This is a guest post by Luke Surl, a PhD student in the Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) at the University of East Anglia, where he is researching the atmospheric chemistry of...
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The future of life detection on Mars: We come in peace, but carry lasers!
This is a guest post by Samantha Rolfe, a PhD student at the The Open University’s Department of Physical Sciences, where she is researching potential biomarkers on Mars using Raman...
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Dead Stars Reveal Mysteries of Planet Formation
This is a guest post by David Wilson, a PhD student in the Astronomy and Astrophysics group at the University of Warwick, where he studies the remains of planetary systems around white dwarfs...
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Throwing Paradigms to the Wind of Climate Change
This is a guest post by Daniil Bachkirov, a joint master’s student in the School of Environmental Sciences and Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, where he studies at the juncture of...
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That Tingling Feeling
There is a word in Japanese, Yūgen (幽玄), derived from the study of Japanese aesthetics with no English equivalent, that perhaps comes closest to describing the profound sense of the enormity of the...
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Exoplanet Astrology: Your Guide to the New Planets
Everyone trusts those great sages of our times, those for whom the intricate secrets of the universe are revealed by the night sky. As wise celestial engineers, the mechanics of the cosmos are obvious...
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Planets of Purpose: Desolation and Meaning in an Empty Universe.
There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate. Stanislaw Lem – Fiasco (1986) [Ch.1, tr. Michael Kandel] A loose rock tumbles slowly...
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Hiking, Skydiving and Booze: The Future of Exoplanet Tourism
Today, NASA released another poster in its wonderful ‘Exoplanet Travel Bureau‘ series. I’ve been a big fan of these prints since their inception; a fun and colorful outreach project that captures the...
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