Solar System Faint Young Sun Paradox Solved? July 1, 2016 A major mystery for materialistic planetary science is solved—if you can swallow the miracles required. CONTINUE READING
Intelligent Design Only Earth Is a Life Haven June 23, 2016 Here are more discoveries that make it reasonable to think complex life is rare in the universe, and might be unique to Earth. CONTINUE READING
Solar System More Challenges to Astrobiology May 26, 2016 There aren't likely as many places to live outside of Earth as earlier hoped. CONTINUE READING
Astronomy Earth Twin Still Missing in Exoplanet Trove May 12, 2016 The Kepler spacecraft has found 2,325 exoplanets so far, but there's still no place like Earth. CONTINUE READING
Astronomy There's No Place Like Earth November 20, 2015 A survey of known exoplanets finds no real estate as valuable as Earth. CONTINUE READING
Solar System New Thoughts on Habitable Planets October 9, 2015 Astrobiologists are trying to standardize the requirements for habitable planets. Do they get them all? CONTINUE READING
Intelligent Design Do You Know How Lucky You Are to Live on Earth? September 22, 2015 The factors that make life possible came together so beautifully, even materialists have trouble knowing why we're here. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Planets Defy Bottom-Up Assembly August 15, 2015 As much as they want to imagine planets forming from dust, secular astronomers run into insurmountable difficulties. CONTINUE READING
Media You Wouldn't Want to Live on "Earth's Cousin" July 24, 2015 Despite the hype about another Earth-like exoplanet, Kepler 452b would not be as habitable as Venus. CONTINUE READING
SETI Desperately Seeking Life Beyond Earth July 7, 2015 Earth life cannot be unique. How about you, Mars? Europa, anything? Enceladus? Comet 67P? Please break the silence! CONTINUE READING
SETI SETI Believers Are Lost in Space July 2, 2015 How long can you say "watch this space" till onlookers lose interest? CONTINUE READING
Physics Star Trek for Real: Impenetrable Force Field Protects Earth November 29, 2014 Radiation belts discovered at the dawn of the space age have a new trick in their pocket: shielding the Earth. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Saturn Rescues Earth: Outer Planet Wonders November 22, 2014 How Saturn saved the Earth, and other news from the ringed planet, its family, and other bodies in the outer solar system. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Moon's Stabilizing Influence Depends on Star Size October 15, 2014 A connection between multiple factors was noted in a recent model of how a moon helps a planet remain habitable. CONTINUE READING
Origin of Life Mars Radiation Fries Organic Compounds September 5, 2014 Don't expect the "building blocks of life" to last very long on Mars. CONTINUE READING