Gareth Dorrian
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The Four Most Promising Worlds for Alien Life in the Solar System
The Earth’s biosphere contains all the known ingredients necessary for life as we know it. Broadly speaking these are: liquid water, at least one source of energy, and an inventory of biologically useful elements...
Lunar Gold Rush Is About to Start—and We Could Exhaust the Solar System in Fewer Than 500 Years
The US president, Donald Trump, has stuck to his plan to send humans back to the moon in the next five years, recently giving the project a US$1.6 billion shot in the arm. Whether...
NASA Wants to Send Humans to Venus. Here’s Why That’s a Brilliant Idea
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History...
Five Reasons to Forget Mars for Now and Return to the Moon
Hopes of colonizing Mars rest on the premise that we could terraform the red planet, making it habitable for humans with a breathable atmosphere and clement temperatures. However, a recent study cast doubt on...
