Space
- Our Solar System Could Lose One Or More Of Its Gas Giants Billions Of Years In The Future
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This is an intriguing paper which has hit the news, see Planet Nine Could Doom Our Solar System- If It Exists. If our solar system has a planet in a distant orbit, way beyond Neptune, such as the planet X candidates, it could lead to instability of our ...
Article - Robert Walker - Sep 10 2016 - 4:42pm
- Proto-Earth's Mantle Became The Moon
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There are various hypotheses for the origin of the Moon but a chemistry analysis says it has disproved the leading one- that a low-energy impact left the proto-Earth and Moon shrouded in a silicate atmosphere. Instead, they say, a much more violent impact ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2016 - 12:22pm
- KIC 8462852 models that fit Kepler observations quite well
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KIC 8462852 (or Tabby's star) made headlines in October of last year because of very deep and very unusual drops in its brightness, which led to speculation that the star might be home to a Type-2 alien civilization. Since then, new discoveries (e.g ...
Blog Post - Jose S - Sep 16 2016 - 9:20am
- Petition To Youtube To Halt Ads On Doomsday Videos- They Make The Vulnerable Suicidal
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I've already done a petition to journalists on the issue of dramatized reporting of doomsday stories that make young children and vulnerable adults suicidal. This is another petition on the same topic, this time to Youtube. The petition is to remove ...
Article - Robert Walker - Sep 25 2017 - 5:02pm
- Hubble Spots Europa Geysers Again- How They Did It- And What Next? Flyby? Lander?
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So now we know what the news is, as expected, Hubble has found new evidence of possible plume activity on Europa. In a series of ten observations, they saw them on three occasions. Here are the images they created. The possible plumes are in the seven o ...
Article - Robert Walker - Oct 1 2016 - 6:54pm
- Wait, Let's Not Rush To Be Multiplanetary Or Interstellar- A Comment On Elon Musk's Vision
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I've just been listening to Elon Musk's much anticipated talk about his vision for colonization of our solar system. Many find this idea inspiring, that by technological means, we can become a multiplanetary species. Here is the talk, in case a ...
Article - Robert Walker - Oct 28 2016 - 11:12pm
- Does Elon Musk's Plan Violate The Outer Space Treaty- Planetary Protection For Mars After Human Crashes
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This is a news story that broke recently, on the idea that Elon Musk's plans would violate the Outer Space Treaty. The articles I've read so far focus on property rights and the provisions in the OST that rule out ownership of territory. But th ...
Article - Robert Walker - Oct 15 2016 - 1:09pm
- What If The Moon Had Blue Skies? One Small Change To Apollo Photos
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When I wrote my kindle and online book Case for Moon First, I was surprised to find that the Moon is resource rich, and often beats Mars in habitability comparisons. Yet photos of Mars released to the press look so much more Earth-like than the Moon, b ...
Article - Robert Walker - Oct 9 2016 - 6:53am
- An Astronaut Gardener On The Moon- Summits Of Sunlight And Vast Lunar Caves In Low Gravity
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Untitled Document You may have heard that the Moon is hopeless for gardening and for growing crops, and that Mars is the "go to" place for a prospective astronaut gardener. But is it? As it turns out, the Moon has some advantages over Mars, espe ...
Article - Robert Walker - Dec 17 2018 - 10:59pm
- Proxima Centauri May Be More Sun-like Than Thought
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The nearby star Proxima Centauri hosts an Earth-sized planet (called Proxima b) in its habitable zone but the star seems nothing like our sun. It's a small, cool, red dwarf star only one-tenth as massive and one-thousandth as luminous as the sun. How ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2016 - 2:18pm