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:
- 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
- China’s Presence in Space Grows and So Do Its Accomplishments May 24, 2021
- Breakthrough Listen Searches The Crowded Center of the Milky Way for Possible Signals From Intelligent Beings May 10, 2021
- Novel Sights and Sounds on Mars April 28, 2021
- The Hows and Whys of Mars Sample Return April 14, 2021
- The Space Telescope That Could Find a Second Earth March 25, 2021
- What Happened to All That Water on Ancient Mars? A New Theory With a Surprising Answer March 16, 2021
- A Close Exoplanet Found That May Have An Atmosphere Ideal For Study March 4, 2021
- NASA’s Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars — The Third Martian Arrival in a Week February 16, 2021
- New Insights Into How Earth Got Its Nitrogen February 12, 2021
