This year’s astrobiology seminar
The astrobiology seminar at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, starts this week. This time, we’ve got three guest speakers from abroad:...
Tag: Solar System
2017: What a year!
It’s finally here: 2018. Many people seemed very eager for 2017 to end, and I’m not surprised, though you can’t cheat a calendar (unless you’re a pope some cent...
Reality catches up with SF faster than SF proceeds
Many science fiction authors have probably experienced the feeling when something you wrote about in SF just a few years ago becomes reality. Hells, I even aske...
Eurocon 2016: Venus, Fermi paradox and more
This year’s Eurocon is approaching fast! The convention will be held in Barcelona on November 4-6. The program has been ready for a couple of weeks, and t...
IAC 2016, Part 2: Moonshots and deep oceans
The International Astronautical Congress had been full of interesting talks, people and events. We’ve already discussed the budding race to Mars, but there was ...
IAC 2016, Part 1: The Race to Mars
This year’s International Astronautical Congress is over, and we can now reflect on what it brought forth. It had been especially eventful this time and l...
LPS16: What’s up on Earth?
Last week, Prague hosted the Living Planet Symposium, a conference focused on Earth observation and held by ESA every three years. I’ve had the opportunit...
The Astrophysics of Planetary Habitability, Days 4 and 5
The Astrophysics of Planetary Habitability has ended yesterday, and during its 5-day run, it has brought forward many interesting questions along with approches...
The Astrophysics of Planetary Habitability, Day 1
The Astrophysics of Planetary Habitability conference has started this afternoon with two invited lectures: one by Victoria Meadows from the University of Washi...
Planetary Science Hot News, Part 2
This year’s European Planetary Science Congress is over. It’s been exciting, full of news and interesting people and really well-organized. What wer...
