Chemical pollution exceeds safe planetary limit: researcher Q+A on consequences for life on Earth: The production and release of plastics, pesticides, industrial compounds, antibiotics and other pollutants is now happening so fast and on such a large scale that it has exceeded the planetary boundary for chemical pollution, the safe limit for humanity, a new …
A new era of planetary exploration: what we discovered on the far side of the Moon: Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock Seven months after it was launched, the US robotic rover Perseverance successfully landed on Mars on February 18 2021. The landing was part of the mission Mars2020 and was viewed live by millions of people worldwide, reflecting …
NASA seeking to hire planetary protection officer: The space agency is looking for a planetary protection officer, someone to guard the planet against “organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration.” In other words, the officer's responsibilities include ensuring humans don't contaminate space, and other organisms don't contaminate Earth either. : Weird News …
How feasible are Elon Musk’s plans to settle on Mars? A planetary scientist explains: The health of astronauts will be one of the main challenges for Musk. D Mitriy/wikimedia, CC BY-ND Mars is the future. It’s after all NASA’s current overarching goal to send humans to the Red Planet. But even as early as the …
My Three Suns: Lessons from weird new planetary system: This newest three-star system also has the brightest sun, according to scientists. The bright sun and its overheated planetary neighbor can teach scientists about planetary evolution in a new type of system. Weird News –