Solar System Juno How Old the Solar System Is? July 6, 2016 Everyone knows the solar system is 4.5 billion years old. Everyone, that is, except Nature herself. CONTINUE READING
Origin of Life Life from Sun Flares? May 23, 2016 A NASA scientist proposes that a period of superflares on the early sun zapped life into existence on the earth. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Titan Ethane Still Missing, and Other Planetary Puzzles May 7, 2016 We update the problem of Titan's missing ethane and other challenges to billions of years. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Tiny Enceladus Beats Saturn in Plasma Output February 17, 2016 An astonishing case of the tail wagging the dog: tiny moon is major source of plasma in Saturn's magnetosphere. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Updates from Outer Planets January 9, 2016 Let's review some of the latest news from missions to the outer planets. CONTINUE READING
Solar System New Pluto Images Even More Perplexing September 25, 2015 Pluto has terrain like no other world, leaving scientists perplexed; Enceladus' activity is also inexplicable for "geologic time". CONTINUE READING
Solar System Planet Recipe Cooked Up August 24, 2015 Just add pebbles, stir, and get a planet. Is it real science, or just a game show? CONTINUE READING
Astronomy Astrobiology: The Joy of Being Wrong August 18, 2015 An astrobiologist looks forward to the day when everything he says is totally wrong. 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
Solar System Moon Origin Models Require Cheating June 1, 2015 You can't get Earth's moon from a planetary collision without quasi-miraculous tweaks to the models. CONTINUE READING
Solar System It's Curtains for Enceladus May 11, 2015 The geysers of Saturn's little moon are like sheets instead of jets, spelling trouble for theories of its ancient age and possible life. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Comet Lander Working, But Not Optimal November 13, 2014 Rosetta's Philae lander hopped twice before landing in the shade in a tilted position, but the instruments are working. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Of Planets and People September 29, 2014 Here's a quick tour of the planets to see what's newsworthy. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Planets Don't Fit Evolutionary Models September 8, 2014 Secular planetary scientists are surprised by almost every object they observe in the solar system. Their models cannot reproduce our system of planets. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Active Moon Triton Revisited August 25, 2014 25 years ago today, Voyager 2 flew by Triton, a moon of Neptune, astonishing scientists with its active geology. CONTINUE READING