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:
- Despite Everything, American-Russian Relations on the International Space Station Appear To Be Solid August 5, 2022
- The First Major Image From The James Webb Space Telescope is a Show-Stopper July 11, 2022
- Reports From Inside the Sun’s Corona July 11, 2022
- Mars Was Once Wetter and Warmer And It Had Life-Essential Organic Carbon. Was There Enough for Life to Emerge? July 6, 2022
- New Research Finds The Very Early Solar System Went Through an Especially Intense Period of Asteroid Collisions June 14, 2022
- Evolving Views of Our Heliosphere Home June 7, 2022
- NASA’s Perseverance Rover on Mars; an Update May 23, 2022
- A Spectacular Look at Things to Come from the James Webb Space Telescope May 12, 2022
- New Findings Suggest the Building Blocks For Life’s Genetic Structure May Well Have Arrived From Above May 2, 2022
- A Clue Into The Makeup of Jupiter’s Moon Europa Provided by the Greenland Ice Sheet April 25, 2022
- “Nature Has Become More Beautiful.” Physicist Eugene Parker and his Life Unlocking Secrets Of The Sun April 12, 2022
- The World’s Most Capable Space Telescope Readies To Observe. What Will Exoplanet Scientists Be Looking For? March 28, 2022
- The European Space Agency Cuts Ties to Russia On Its ExoMars Mission. But U.S-Russian Cooperation Continues on the ISS March 18, 2022
- The James Webb Space Telescope And Its Exoplanet Mission (Part 1) March 15, 2022
- Will The ISS Fall Victim to Russia’s Ukraine Invasion and Resulting Sanctions? Can The ExoMars Project Survive? February 27, 2022
- Venus, as Never Seen Before February 15, 2022
- More On The Very Hot Science of Stellar Flares and Their Implications For Habitability February 3, 2022
- “Tantalizing” Carbon Signals From Mars January 22, 2022
- 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
