The eternal chicken-or-egg Earth-Mars enigma --- did Mars seed life on Earth or did Earth seed putative life on the Red Planet? --- is utter astrobiological “nonsense.” Or so says Pascale Ehrenfreund, ...
Colombian astrochemist Dr Heidy Mayerly Quitián-Lara is creating synthetic ices to study the formation of molecules that could lead to the origin of life in young planetary systems. "The goal of my ...
Frequent readers of Outside the Box may recall my predictions for 2013, particularly Prediction #5, “She blinded me with science”. I predicted the continual adoption of modular instruments by the ...
Today professor Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University) was awarded the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award 2014. The Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award is awarded annually to a scientist who ...