With about 200 orbital launches scheduled and ambitious missions on everything from lunar bases to the search for life in the works, there’s a lot to watch in 2022. An astronomer explains the highlights.
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Astronomers just measured the largest flare ever from Proxima Centauri, humanity’s closest neighboring star. These flares could be bad news for life trying to develop on a planet orbiting the star.
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has arrived and landed the Perseverance Rover on the red planet. The rover’s goal is to collect rock and soil samples to be brought back to Earth in the future.
Xenobots have been called the world’s first “living robots”. They are made entirely of living tissue, and can be programmed to move towards a certain object.
New mathematical analysis of 35-year-old data from the Mars Viking probes suggests that soil samples they retrieved may have…
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Professor of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
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Post-Doctoral Researcher in Astrophysics, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Department of War Studies, King's College London
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
