Those Anomalous Martian Artefacts: The Trickster Gods At Work?
One of the many things you expect in planetary exploration is to expect the unexpected, and the list of unexpected phenomena is quite a long one. However, there’s the unexpected and then there’s the...
View ArticleCloser To Truth: Fine-Tuning And The Goldilocks Universe
There is an ongoing PBS TV series (also several books and also a website) called “Closer To Truth”. It is hosted by neuroscientist Robert Lawrence Kuhn. He’s featured in one-on-one interviews and panel...
View ArticleMysterious Europa: A Shifting Surface And Giant Geysers Gone Missing
Europa is a fascinating, enticing little world–a mysterious, bewitching moon of ice that circles the gas-giant planet Jupiter in the cold outer regions of our Solar System. Many planetary scientists...
View ArticleElderly Planets With A Companion Have A Better Chance At Life
The first exoplanets, dwelling within the distant families of stars other than our Sun, were discovered a generation ago, and since then planet-hunting astronomers have been treated to a veritable...
View ArticleA Little Galaxy With A Big, Dark Heart
Supermassive black holes reside in the hidden dark hearts of perhaps every large galaxy in the Universe. These weird and incredible “hearts of darkness” weigh-in at millions to billions of...
View ArticleEarth-Like Planets Are Tasty Tidbits For Hungry Stars!
The first exoplanet to be observed circling a Sun-like star was an enormous roaster, spotted by two Swiss astronomers who made the historic discovery back in 1995. Since then, around 1800 exoplanets...
View ArticleCloser To Truth: Simulated And Multiple Universes
There is an ongoing PBS TV series (also several books and also a website) called “Closer To Truth”. It is hosted by neuroscientist Robert Lawrence Kuhn. He’s featured in one-on-one interviews and panel...
View ArticleAn Unearthly Imitation Of Blasts From The Past!
The first generation of stars to be born in the very ancient Universe were not like the stars we know, love, and wish upon today. The first stars were born from the lightest of all primordial...
View ArticleMapping Neptune’s Mysterious Moon
In the cold, icy darkness of the outer realm of our Solar System, far from the comforting warmth and glimmering golden light of our Sun, a frigid and beautiful, blue and gigantic, gaseous planet...
View ArticleA Mysterious Eruption Of Dust Surrounding A Young Star
Asteroids are small rocky and metallic bodies that are relics of our own Solar System’s birth about 4.56 billion years ago. The progenitors of rocky planets like our own, they are also thought to...
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