Two Theories About Mars' Past - Warm and Wet or Cold and Icy
June 19, 2015 - For sometime now as robot rovers and Martian orbiters study the geology of our neighbouring planet we have learned about its past. Mars some 4 billion or more years ago may have been...
View ArticleJust How Far into the Future Can We See? Ask Cosmologists
July 4, 2015 - To all my American readers a happy 4th of July. As a researcher bent on understanding the future and where humanity is going I seldom think about this within a cosmological context. But...
View ArticleInteresting Space News This Week
July 25, 2015 - Space has been big in the news in the last week. From the latest Pluto images to the discovery of a potential Earth-twin exoplanet, to new observations about the bright spots on the...
View ArticleNew Horizons Keeps Giving us More of Pluto - Wow!
September 12, 2015 - From icy new mountain ranges to spectacular images of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, New Horizons is unlocking the mysteries of the dwarf planet as more of its data gets...
View ArticleFor SETI Followers a Star Named KIC 8462852 May Be the "Missing Link"
October 14, 2015 - The Kepler Space Telescope has provided evidence to show that planets orbiting stars is not a unique phenomenon. We know that the Solar System is just one of many.read more
View ArticleTechnological Civilizations of the Future Will be Clueless About the Origins...
October 21, 2015 - The Solar System is 4.6 billion years old. At that time only 8% of potential Goldilocks Zone planets existed.read more
View ArticlePlanets in the News - A Planet X and the Newest Goldilocks Zone Exoplanet
December 18, 2015 - Two planet stories this week caught my eye. The first may expand the number of known planets in our Solar System. And the second adds another exoplanet to the growing stable of...
View ArticleFour New Elements Join Visible Matter Periodic Table - What About Dark Matter?
January 7, 2016 - Is dark matter a Universe in parallel with the one we can see? Does dark matter have an equivalent periodic table?read more
View ArticleThe Question "Are We Alone?" Got More Complicated This Month
January 12, 2016 - The search for extraterrestrial inread more
View ArticleEinstein Was Right - Watch for Gravity Waves Announcement on Thursday
February 10, 2016 - That Albert Einstein was a pretty smart guy. A century ago in a thought experiment leading to general relativity he theorized gravitational waves.read more
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