Solar System Are Saturn's Moons Younger than the Dinosaurs? April 2, 2016 Stunning admissions show that secular astronomers can't keep Saturn's moons billions of years old. 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
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 Cassini Plunges Through Enceladus Geyser, and Other Saturn News October 29, 2015 Yesterday's daring plunge through a plume of an Enceladus geyser is the highlight of recent Saturn news. CONTINUE READING
Origin of Life Origin-of-Life Speculation Goes Off the Rails October 21, 2015 Astrobiologists and their accomplices in the media are finding life everywhere where it isn't or couldn't be. Time to call in the science rangers. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Pounding Headaches for Solar System Dates October 19, 2015 It's hard to tell when things crashed into each other. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Saturn Surprises August 8, 2015 Cassini keeps revealing puzzling phenomena in the Saturn system that challenge traditional theories and date estimates. CONTINUE READING
Dating Methods Pluto Is Young July 15, 2015 The New Horizons science team is stunned by surface features on Pluto and its large moon Charon that cannot be billions of years old. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Pluto Inbound Image Stuns Scientists July 14, 2015 It's not a featureless orb: Pluto has a whale and a heart. A "complex and nuanced" surface shows that Pluto and its large moon Charon had a history. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Titan: Planetary Scientists Invent Imaginary Histories June 15, 2015 Getting from then to now is more poetic license than demonstrable fact. CONTINUE READING
Geology Geology Upset: Wind Carves Canyons Fast March 19, 2015 According to a new study, wind carves canyons ten times faster than water. This has implications for theories on Mars and Earth. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Water Worlds Tempt with Life, Not Youth March 13, 2015 More and more planets and moons are suspected of having liquid water, but what should be the logical implications? CONTINUE READING
Solar System Mars Methane Is Not Alive December 16, 2014 Small periodic spikes in methane on Mars are turning the Mars-lifers into spin doctors. 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