Solar System Uranus and Neptune in the News December 12, 2024 The blue planets beyond Saturn made headlines recently. CONTINUE READING
Origin of Life 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. CONTINUE READING
Media Archive: Mars, Pulsars, DNA, Mammals, More June 1, 2024 These articles from late May 2002 still hold interest for CEH readers. CONTINUE READING
Solar System 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. CONTINUE READING
Philosophy of Science 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. CONTINUE READING
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
Geology Geophysics Not Rock Solid Science October 1, 2018 With observation, instruments and models, you would think geophysics is hard science. 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
Solar System 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. 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 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 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
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 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! 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