Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist and science communicator at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Her research explores the formation of stars and planets, while her science articles have covered topics from Egyptian coffins to deep sea drilling (but mainly focus on exoplanets and space missions!). She is the author of “The Planet Factory” on the formation of planets and the strange worlds we have discovered beyond our Sun and also keeps her own website and personal blog.
Recent Posts by Elizabeth:
- Can We Trust a Handful of Grains to Tell Us About the Early Earth? A Look at the Hayabusa2 Asteroid Sample February 13, 2022
- The Surface of Venus Was Thought to Be Stagnant. But This May Not Be True July 7, 2021
- And Then There Were Three: ESA Follows NASA in Selecting a Mission to Venus June 14, 2021
- Return to Hell: NASA Selects Two Missions to Venus to Explore the Pathway to Habitability June 7, 2021
- The Directly Imaged World Around α Centauri? February 23, 2021
- Japan’s Hayabusa2 Mission Returns to Earth December 11, 2020
- The Planet Larger Than Its Star September 28, 2020
- Could Life Exist in the Clouds of Venus? September 14, 2020
- Standing on an Asteroid: Could the Future of Research and Education be Virtual Reality? May 14, 2020
- Have We Photographed Our Nearest Planetary System? April 22, 2020
- Japan’s Mission to the Martian Moons Will Return a Sample From Phobos. What Makes This Moon So Exciting? February 25, 2020
- Exactly How Like Our Earth is an Earth-like Planet? January 28, 2020
- The Giant Moon That Might Be the Heart of a Jupiter October 6, 2019
- The Planets Too Big for Their Star September 26, 2019
- Searching for the Edge of Habitability August 21, 2019
- Hayabusa2 Snatches Second Asteroid Sample July 18, 2019
- Starting Life on Another Planet May 17, 2019
- Japan’s Hayabusa2 Asteroid Mission Reveals a Remarkable New World March 13, 2019
- The Gale Winds of Venus Suggest How Locked Exoplanets Could Escape a Fate of Extreme Heat and Brutal Cold January 31, 2019
- Does Proxima Centauri Create an Environment Too Horrifying for Life? November 29, 2018
- What Would Happen If Mars And Venus Swapped Places? October 24, 2018
- Prepare For Lift-off! BepiColombo Launches For Mercury October 18, 2018
- Asteroid Remains Around Dead Stars Reveal the Likely Fate of Our Solar System June 28, 2018
- Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet: How Gaia is Helping Nail Down Planet Sizes May 18, 2018
- NASA’s Planet-Hunter TESS Has Just Been Launched to Check Out the Near Exoplanet Neighborhood April 18, 2018
- The Just-Approved European ARIEL Mission Will Be First Dedicated to Probing Exoplanet Atmospheres March 29, 2018
- To Understand Habitability, We Need to Return to Venus February 8, 2018
- Artificial Intelligence Has Just Found Two Exoplanets: What Does This Mean For Planet Hunting? December 18, 2017
- Can You Overwater a Planet? November 22, 2017
- Phobos and Deimos: Captured Asteroids or Cut From Ancient Mars? June 16, 2017
