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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Alan Chodos |Christopher Mason |Erika Nesvold
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Neutrinos. They’re tiny, just points in space. Each one barely affects anything else. They pass through you, the Earth, and the sun with hardly a trace. They almost never reveal themselves, but without them we couldn’t know why the stars shine. Each has a minute mass. And while their individual interactions are meager, there are so many that, all together, they might change the courses of galaxies.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Christopher Mason |Immaculata De Vivo |Erika Nesvold |Emmanuelle Pouydebat
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable. —Robert GoddardUntil 1992, when the first exoplanets were discovered, there had never been direct evidence of a planet found outside our solar system. Thirty years after this first discovery, thousands of additional exoplanets have been identified.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
popsci.com | Erika Nesvold
SHARE This story originally featured on the MIT Press Reader. Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth. But some futurists and space settlement enthusiasts have proposed an even more drastic alteration of the space environment: the transformation of the surface of a planet or moon into a more Earth-like environment via a process known as terraforming.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
nautil.us | Erika Nesvold
Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth. But some futurists and space settlement enthusiasts have proposed an even more drastic alteration of the space environment: the transformation of the surface of a planet or moon into a more Earth-like environment via a process known as terraforming.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Erika Nesvold
Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth. But some futurists and space settlement enthusiasts have proposed an even more drastic alteration of the space environment: the transformation of the surface of a planet or moon into a more Earth-like environment via a process known as terraforming.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Erika Nesvold |Dario Floreano |Nicola Nosengo |Wade Roush
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth. But some futurists and space settlement enthusiasts have proposed an even more drastic alteration of the space environment: the transformation of the surface of a planet or moon into a more Earth-like environment via a process known as terraforming.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
nature.com | Martin Elvis |Erika Nesvold
Current interest in furthering space exploration is undoubtedly relevant to materials science research. However, as we stand on the brink of a revolution, it is imperative to establish robust frameworks to foster sustainable growth. In this Viewpoint, experts in space policy, environmental stewardship and ethics reflect on issues from space debris management to international collaboration and exploitation of extraterrestrial resources.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
makingnewworlds.substack.com | Erika Nesvold
Last month, Reuters published the results of an investigation into workplace injuries at various SpaceX facilities. In particular, they found that in 2022, SpaceX’s Brownsville, TX manufacturing and launch facility reported a workplace injury rate six times higher than the space industry average, and the SpaceX rocket testing facility in McGregor, TX had an injury rate three times the industry average.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
newscientist.com | Erika Nesvold
Space Headlines about alien flu from outer space exaggerate the risk of extraterrestrial microbes but we still need to be careful about taking our own germs off-planet, says astrophysicist Erika Nesvold By Erika Nesvold When astronauts on the Apollo 11, 12 and 14 missions returned to Earth, they were kept in quarantine for three weeks – along with the lunar samples they’d collected – to make sure they hadn’t …
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
newscientist.com | Erika Nesvold
I’m an astronomer who writes about the ethics of human space settlement, most recently in Off-Earth: Ethical questions and quandaries for living in outer space. My road to this particular career was paved with science fiction, a genre filled with murky ethical questions in addition to all the tentacled aliens and eye-catching explosions.
