Biosphere 2 isn’t just the site of a famous human experiment. Today, scientists there work to understand how life emerges in barren environments.
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3D printing in outer space and on alien planets comes with otherworldly challenges.
Humans might one day be able to live somewhere else in the Universe.
David Attenborough’s new BBC documentary The Green Planet shows plants are stranger than they first appear.
Elon Musk may be disappointed by recent studies threatening his plans to go to Mars, but planetary scientists are breathing a sigh of relief.
Musk dismisses one of the main technical challenges of being on the Martian surface: the temperature.
Interplanetary colonisation was once the stuff of science fiction but now there are plans to colonise Mars. How have film-makers and writers dealt with our rapacious Anthropocene age?
Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan speaks his mind about space travel, terraforming and religion.
Water on Mars could mean life on Mars. But how do we explore it without destroying it?
The Conversation organised a public question-and-answer session on Reddit in which David Waltham, reader in mathematical geology at Royal Holloway in London, explained what makes Earth so special and what…
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