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I have a new article published on my Across the Universe blog for The Guardian:
"Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may harbour extraterrestrial life. Nasa has announced a mission to go, but Esa will get there first.
Europa is a tantalising place orbiting the giant planet of Jupiter. Extraordinary images from the twin Voyager spacecraft in 1979 showed that Europa’s surface was cracked in places, with what looked like ice floes in others.
This sparked the possibility that beneath that icy crust could be an ocean. Magnetic field data and further investigation by the Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s seemed to confirm this. And where there is water on Earth, there is life. Could the same be true at Europa? ..."
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I have a new article published on my Across the Universe blog for The Guardian.
"A new video from the European Space Agency talks about an international effort to return humans to the moon as a stepping stone for future crewed missions.
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I have a new piece published by the Guardian:
"British Beagle 2 probe had not been seen or heard from since December 2003 and had been presumed destroyed.
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I have a new article published by The Guardian.
"The planet announced on Tuesday may be the most Earth-like to date, but there are better candidates for alien life waiting to be discovered.
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I have a new posting on my Guardian blog, Across the Universe.
"The European Space Agency is playing a high-stakes game but the potential science return makes it worth taking the chance.
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I have a new article published by The Guardian.
"The aurora borealis could be pushed further south than usual by a coronal mass ejection from the sun on Friday.
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I have a new article on my Guardian blog, Across the Universe:
"Rosetta has arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. One of the most audacious space missions in decades, it is designed to reveal clues to the origins of the solar system, our home planet and life itself
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I have a new article published on my Guardian blog, Across the Universe.
"The iron meteorite discovered by the Curiosity rover must once have been at the heart of a growing planet that was shattered aeons ago.
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I have a new article published on my Guardian blog, Across the Universe.
"Construction of the E-ELT monster telescope starts on Thursday with the blasting of a million tonnes of rock from a mountain top. Watch the livestream below.
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I have a new article published by the Guardian.
"European Space Agency scientist says annual sea level rises since 1993 indicate that warming has continued unabated.