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:
- Exoplanets With Complex Life May Be Very Rare, Even in Their “Habitable Zones” June 14, 2019
- A Grand Global Competition to Name 100 ExoWorlds June 7, 2019
- A Magical Solar Eclipse From 1900, Recovered and Instructive May 31, 2019
- The Message of Really, Really Extreme Life May 28, 2019
- NExSS 2.0 May 13, 2019
- Many Worlds Interruptus May 10, 2019
- Great Nations Need Great Observatories April 25, 2019
- Our Ever-Growing Menagerie of Exoplanets April 18, 2019
- The “Twin Study,” and What it Does and Does Not Say About The Health Hazards of Space Travel April 11, 2019
- A Significant Advance: Primitive Earth Life Survives an 18-Month Exposure to Mars-Like Conditions in Space April 4, 2019
- Ancient Mars Water. Ever More of It, and Flowing Ever Longer on the Surface March 28, 2019
- A New and Revelatory Window Into Evolution on Earth March 22, 2019
- How Creatures End Up Miles Below the Surface of Earth, and Maybe Mars Too March 4, 2019
- MarCO And The Future of CubeSats February 21, 2019
- All About Emergence February 14, 2019
- The Moon-Forming Impact And Its Gifts January 28, 2019
- A Hubble Spectacular January 17, 2019
- Weird Planets January 2, 2019
- Artifacts In Space December 13, 2018
- InSight Lands on Mars For Unique Mission November 26, 2018
