Solar System Much Ado About Ryugu March 23, 2023 Uracil, a molecule found in RNA, has been reported in an asteroid. From media hype, one would think they discovered life. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Planetary Science Evolves to Fit Failed Predictions February 16, 2023 The scientists may consider correction a benefit, but why were they so wrong for so long? CONTINUE READING
Solar System Ring Around the Theory February 9, 2023 We all fall down, say theorists about a ring around a minor planet where it shouldn't exist. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Stars Kill Their Planets January 19, 2023 Many stars, including sunlike stars, murder their children. Only special conditions allow for habitability. CONTINUE READING
Origin of Life The OOL Tease: NASA’s Ponzi Scheme January 16, 2023 If you buy into NASA's perennial search for the origin of life, you'll lose it all. There's no collateral. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Wrong Again: Oort Cloud Fail January 2, 2023 Dramatic clash between observation and theory leaves astronomers dumbfounded. CONTINUE READING
Solar System The Last and Lasting Footprint on the Moon December 14, 2022 50 years ago, Harrison Schmitt left the last footprint on the moon, but he is leaving tracks of an independent thinker on Earth. CONTINUE READING
Solar System How to Keep the Solar System Old: Struggle and Hope December 2, 2022 Keeping the consensus age of the solar system is vital to evolution, but observations keep getting in the way. CONTINUE READING
Origin of Life Earth Arctic Is Not Like Enceladus November 22, 2022 NASA commits its most common logical fallacy in a press release geared to titillate the public about astrobiology. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Returning to a Young Moon November 15, 2022 On the eve of the Artemis launch, questions about the age and formation of the moon have resurfaced. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Moon Is Too Dry for Astronauts November 14, 2022 NASA is counting on water ice in shadowed craters on the moon, but there may be none. And there are other hazards. CONTINUE READING
Human Body Astronauts Leave Earth at Their Peril November 3, 2022 Human bodies can survive in space for awhile. The damage adds up over time. CONTINUE READING
Cell Biology NASA to Fly Owls to Look for Elvis October 6, 2022 Is an experiment a waste of time if it has almost zero possibility of success? Perhaps, but the spinoffs can be useful. CONTINUE READING
Solar System NASA Goes Loony: Moon Formed in Mere Hours? October 4, 2022 Is it clickbait? NASA is claiming the moon formed within hours after a collision. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Saturn and Unobserved Events September 16, 2022 When is it rational to invoke unobservable events to make a theory work? Here's a test case at Saturn. CONTINUE READING