Uranus and Neptune in the News
December 12, 2024
The blue planets beyond Saturn made headlines recently.
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Mooney Tunes: The Fantasy Moons of Astrobiologists Leave Science Far Behind
October 3, 2024
You could be an astrobiologist, too. Just make up imaginary worlds filled with imaginary life.
Archive: Mars, Pulsars, DNA, Mammals, More
June 1, 2024
These articles from late May 2002 still hold interest for CEH readers.
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.
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."
Geophysics Not Rock Solid Science
October 1, 2018
With observation, instruments and models, you would think geophysics is hard science.
Planet Party Busted by Triton
November 16, 2017
Theories can be like parties with tantalizing speculations until big, whopping anomalies spoil the fun.
Planetary Rings Defy Long Ages
November 1, 2016
Models of the origin of planetary rings are simulations based on fictions. Real physics cannot keep them billions of years old.
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?
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.
Planet Recipe Cooked Up
August 24, 2015
Just add pebbles, stir, and get a planet. Is it real science, or just a game show?
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.
Solar System Reversals
February 9, 2015
The planets keep going around, but theories about them often stop and go backward or sideways. When nothing else works, send in the impactors!
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.