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:
- 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
- How to Predict the Make-Up of Rocky Exoplanets Too Small and Distant to Directly Observe January 30, 2021
- More Weird and Wild Planets January 13, 2021
- Sparkling Gifts From the Hubble Space Telescope, Thirty Years Into Its Mission December 21, 2020
- The Faint Young Sun Paradox and Mars December 2, 2020
- How Radioactive Elements May Make Planets Suitable or Hostile to Life November 17, 2020
- Strong Doubts Arise About the Reported Phosphine Biosignature in the Atmosphere of Venus November 4, 2020
- New Discoveries of Water on the Sunlit Side of the Moon. Might the H2O Be Encased in Glass-like Beads? October 26, 2020
- OSIRIS-REx Scoops The Surface of the Asteroid Bennu! October 21, 2020
- Surprising Insights Into the Asteroid Bennu’s Past, as OSIRIS-REx Prepares For a Sample-Collecting “Tag” October 8, 2020
- Why Not Assemble Space Telescopes In Space? September 24, 2020
- An “Elegant” New Theory on How Earth Became a Wet Planet August 27, 2020
- Cores, Planets and The Mission to Psyche August 20, 2020
- How Many Habitable Zone Planets Can Orbit a Host Star? August 10, 2020
- Our Sun, as Never Seen Before July 16, 2020
- Sample Return in the Time of Coronavirus July 7, 2020
