Uranus and Neptune in the News
December 12, 2024
The blue planets beyond Saturn made headlines recently.
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Archive: Mars, Pulsars, DNA, Mammals, More
June 1, 2024
These articles from late May 2002 still hold interest for CEH readers.
Archive: Neptune, Molecular Motors, Romance
May 3, 2024
These entries from May 2002, lost during a website upgrade, are reposted here for edification, amusement, or both.
Fat Star Child Too Big for Mom
December 5, 2023
Could a mother give birth to a 170-pound baby? That's what a new exoplanet is like.
Saturn’s Rings Officially Young (Again)
May 12, 2023
Old agers can't weasel around it any more. Saturn's rings are short-lived. They cannot be as old as Saturn.
Why Scientists Brag About Things They Cannot Know
September 23, 2021
Undeserved authority bestowed on scientists allows some of them to boast of knowledge they don't have.
This Exoplanet Shouldn’t Exist
October 29, 2020
Astronomers are baffled by a Neptune-sized exoplanet with an atmosphere that should have burned up long ago.
Star Warts: Planets Rebel Against Theory
August 5, 2020
Things in space don't always cooperate with theoretical expectations.
Forcing Planets into Line
July 30, 2020
You can't make a planet do what your model says it must do to exist, unless it cooperates in your imagination.
Venus Is Erupting
July 20, 2020
If new indirect observations are correct, Venus is an active planet today with huge volcanoes.
Spinning Solar System Objects to Keep Them Old
June 7, 2019
If you remove the obligation to think in billions of years, many phenomena in the solar system make more sense.
Where Did Earth’s Water Come From?
June 1, 2019
Water is just one big problem facing secular scientists who feel a need to explain everything without design.
Saturn’s Rings Not Just Young, but “Very Young”
January 18, 2019
Cassini scientists now have reduced the rings' age by an order of magnitude, as if they formed practically "yesterday."
Exoplanets Are Young, Too
December 22, 2018
Observations cause a major upset in planet formation theory, and the time needed for evolution.
OOL Cells Are DOA
June 21, 2018
NASA throws money at origin-of-life (OOL) studies that are doomed to failure, and at education programs to tell students that futility is good science.