Solar System 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." CONTINUE READING
Solar System Initial Views of Ultima Thule from New Horizons Show Young Object January 2, 2019 Ultima Thule, the farthest object ever visited up close by a spacecraft, looks like a snowman. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Pluto Rivals Earth in Geological Complexity September 14, 2018 Call it what you will, Pluto is a planet of surprises. Its active geology is second only to Earth's, say two planetary scientists. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Young Pluto Stuns Scientists with Astonishing Maps July 16, 2018 New color maps score high on the Wow Factor. How can this lonely dwarf planet still be active? Its moon Charon looks young, too. CONTINUE READING
Solar System What’s Pluto Been Dune? Making Young Sand Dunes June 4, 2018 Sand dunes were surprising enough on Titan, but et tu, Pluto? and young, recent dunes? Scientists couldn't believe their eyes. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Planet Party Busted by Triton November 16, 2017 Theories can be like parties with tantalizing speculations until big, whopping anomalies spoil the fun. CONTINUE READING
SETI Evolutionists Offer Trick or Treat to Space Aliens October 30, 2017 True believers in space evolution have gone totally spooky. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Small Planetary Bodies Unexpectedly Active March 27, 2017 You would think things would have cooled down after 4.5 billion years. That's not what planetary scientists are observing. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Pluto and Ceres: Young Dwarf Planets December 28, 2016 With all its data downloaded, New Horizons continues to surprise astronomers with evidence of active geology and youth at Pluto. CONTINUE READING
Geology Lyell Loses in a Landslide November 8, 2016 Politics is on the minds of Americans today. Landslides are turning geological votes away from Lyell's uniformitarianism toward catastrophism. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Trending: Moons With Oceans October 14, 2016 Europa has one. Enceladus has one. Titan might have one. Now, it seems every moon wants an ocean under its crust. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Underground Oceans Can't Last Forever June 29, 2016 If Pluto and Enceladus have oceans under the crust, why are they still liquid after billions of years? CONTINUE READING
Solar System Pluto Has Active Geology June 4, 2016 Convection apparently forms the polygonal cells in Sputnik Planum, a large active region on Pluto's surface. CONTINUE READING
Solar System First Pluto Papers Published March 19, 2016 Planetary scientists have published their first official findings about the 9th planet (or dwarf planet), Pluto. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Solar System Is Weird Only if It Is Old March 14, 2016 To someone who believes the solar system is billions of years old, no wonder its contents look weird. CONTINUE READING