James Webb telescope might soon have a new name
Revelations that NASA Administrator James Webb had a dark homophobic legacy has motivated NASA to consider renaming the James Webb Telescope
cosmology
How did they date the oldest stardust material?
Analysis of samples from meteorite reveals stardust that is 7 billion years old, far older than our sun & earth. How did they work this out?
New Mystery: Seasonal variations of Oxygen on MARS
Measurements made by Curiosity of the MARS admosphere over the last 6 years reveals seasonal variations of Oxygen that can’t be explained.
Is there Life on MARS?
Various media stories have popped up this week concerning a NASA Scientist who worked on the Viking Lander missions back in the 1970s. They report that he asserts that their life detection experiment designed to detect life on MARS was positive and that NASA has simply ignored those results. Examples of such stories include these … Read more
How many Earth Like planets are there?
On 14th Aug 2019, a new paper was published in The Astronomical Journal that addresses the question of the quantity of earth like planets. Titled “Occurrence Rates of Planets Orbiting FGK Stars: Combining Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2, and Bayesian Inference” it attempts to answer the question. The abstract explains it as follows: We characterize the occurrence rate of planets, … Read more
Flat-Earth vs Creationism
A Young-Earth creationist from Answers in Genesis has unintentially written a very articulate criticism of Young-Earth Creationism.