Making a Martian: Is tardigrade genetic modification the key to colonizing Mars?
“Making a Martian: Is tardigrade genetic modification the key to colonizing Mars?” presents the concept of gene-editing, which could aid space travel.
Astrobiology
How to Look for Alien Life
The possibility of extraterrestrial life has been discussed for centuries, in both scientific and fictitious work. But it wasn’t until 1992 that the first exoplanet (planet outside of our solar system) was detected, and 2001 that the first exoplanet in a habitable zone was detected [1]. This makes exoplanetology and astrobiology relatively new fields of …