Marc Kaufman is the author of two books about space: “Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission” and “First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Search for Life Beyond Earth.” He is also an experienced journalist, having spent three decades at The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He began writing the column in October 2015, when NASA’s NExSS initiative was in its infancy. While the “Many Worlds” column is supported and informed by NASA’s Astrobiology Program, any opinions expressed are the author’s alone.
To contact Marc, send an email to marc.kaufman@manyworlds.space.
Recent Posts by Marc:
- A Red Supergiant Star Is Caught Going Explosively Supernova, A First January 11, 2022
- The Amazing Unfurling Of The James Webb Space Telescope December 28, 2021
- A Huge Watery Reservoir May Lie Beneath the Surface of The “Grand Canyon” of Mars December 22, 2021
- What The James Webb Space Telescope Can Do For Exoplanet Science and What It Cannot Do December 17, 2021
- Why Does Our Solar System Have No Super-Earths, and Other Questions for Comparative Planetology December 1, 2021
- Touching the Sun November 18, 2021
- NASA Should Build a Grand Observatory Designed to Search For Life Beyond Earth, Top Panel Concludes November 5, 2021
- Metal Mini-Asteroids Detected Passing Near Earth, Offering Potentially Great Science and Maybe Future Mining November 3, 2021
- A Call To Action on Ensuring That Extraordinary Claims About ET Life Come With Extraordinary Evidence October 27, 2021
- Many Planets Form in a Soup of Life-Friendly Organic Compounds October 14, 2021
- Frigid Europa Holds a Huge and Maybe Habitable Ocean Beneath Its Thick Ice Covering. How is That Possible? September 29, 2021
- Sample Return from Mars Begins in Earnest September 11, 2021
- Introducing Hycean Planets August 31, 2021
- Findings Suggest that Red Dwarf Stars May Not Sterilize Many Exoplanets As Feared August 25, 2021
- The Many Ways The James Webb Space Telescope Could Fail August 5, 2021
- A Young Planet Found That May Well Be Making Moons July 27, 2021
- Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet July 16, 2021
- Will The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) — Or Something Like It — Emerge As NASA’s Next Great Observatory? June 28, 2021
- UFOs, Redux June 26, 2021
- Sure UFOs Exist. But There’s No Reason To Conclude That Aliens Are Flying Them June 3, 2021
