Space

NASA plans to send a flying robot to Titan’s surface in the search for alien life.

One of our most popular special features in 2018 was issue 73’s focus on Europe’s efforts to take a active role in the world’s renewed interest in space exploration. In this month’s ‘Life After’, we reconnect with Dr Ann-Iren Kittang Jost, the coordinator of one of the projects showcased in that special feature, TIME SCALE, who updates us on her team’s efforts in developing innovative life support systems to enable the growth of crops and algae in a space-faring environment.

Researchers may soon be gaining greater insight into the cosmos’ most extreme phenomena with over 100 telescopes offering higher resolution, unparalleled accuracy and 10 times the sensitivity of current instruments.

In a successful field trial, engineers test the capabilities of three self-driving rovers on Mars-like terrain in the Sahara Desert.