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The fifth episode of the To the moon and beyond podcast series explores where we will be travelling in 2069.
As more than a million people have indicated plans to partake in a citizen ‘raid’ on the famed Area 51 to ‘see them aliens,’ a scholar on the search for extraterrestrial life weighs in on the hype.
Whether anything could live in Europa’s subsurface ocean depends on what kind of salt it contains. Now scientists have found out.
The ancient question ‘Are we alone?’ has graduated from being a philosophical musing to a testable hypothesis. We should be prepared for an answer.
The space industry and global interest in all matters inter-planetary is growing.
We will never see ‘Oumuamua again, and we may never know exactly what it is. But with the right kind of media coverage it could inspire some kids to take up a career in science.
NASA’s InSight Mars lander touches down Nov. 26, part of a careful robotic approach to exploring the red planet. But human exploration of Mars will inevitably introduce Earth life. Are you OK with that?
A moon has been spotted in a star system 4000 light years away – but its structure is confusing.
Elon Musk may be disappointed by recent studies threatening his plans to go to Mars, but planetary scientists are breathing a sigh of relief.
Nearly 50 years since the first man walked on the moon, our morals are still stranded on Earth.
New research on parallel universes forces cosmologists to come to an uncomfortable conclusion.
We could find evidence of life on Europa within a couple of decades.
Using AI to search for ET might help us find things we couldn’t even imagine we should look for, but to succeed we also have think critically about how we create and use that technology.
NASA and ESA have signed a letter of intent to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth.
Scientists looking for signs of alien life from the mystery object passing through our Solar system say they’ve found nothing “so far”.
Scientists used to think that the ocean on Enceladus would be transient, perhaps freezing after a few million years. A new study suggests this isn’t the case.
Aliens are highly likely to undergo natural selection, shows new research.
The belief that ancient Egyptians needed help from supernatural beings to built the Giza pyramids relies, unavoidably, on racism and colonial attitudes.
Humanity is the real target for these recordings which continue to inspire us to better understand ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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Professor (Physics), University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
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Honorary Fellow, Space and Astronomy, CSIRO; Western Sydney University
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Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW
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Professor in Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Senior research fellow, Curtin University
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Sir Bernard Lovell chair of Astrophysics, University of Manchester