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Corey S. Powell

Corey S. Powell is the project editor at Nautilus, and the co-founder of OpenMind magazine.

A Crucial Ingredient for Life Is Bubbling Up on Europa

Jupiter’s ice-capped moon has a storehouse of carbon dioxide in its subsurface ocean.

October 3, 2023

The Planets with the Giant Diamonds Inside

Mining the mysteries of Uranus and Neptune.

July 7, 2021

These Images Expose the Dark Side of the Solar System

Explore the hidden drama of planets, comets, and space geysers.

August 26, 2020

The Road Less Traveled to Fusion Energy

This privateer is developing a way to power the world with water and borax.

June 3, 2020

Red Planet Ride-Along

Hit the trail with the Mars rovers, on the hunt for water and life.

January 22, 2020

The Joy of Cosmic Mediocrity

It’s lonely to be an exceptional planet.

December 20, 2019

If We Believe in Dark Matter, Why Not Extraterrestrial Life?

Avi Loeb has a lot of thoughts about aliens and scientific prejudice.

December 11, 2019

Will Quantum Mechanics Swallow Relativity?

The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn.

October 15, 2015

Why Europa Is the Place to Go for Alien Life

NASA is scheduled to probe the Jovian moon in 2023.

June 12, 2015

The Beckoning of the Ice Worlds

We’ve been looking for life on Earth-like planets. Will Europa teach us better?

June 12, 2015

When the Earth Had Two Moons

A new model—“The Big Splat”—explains the strange asymmetry of the moon.

April 25, 2014

The Madness of the Planets

Our home in the universe continues to rock out of control.

December 9, 2013