Space

How A "Dwarf Planet" Gas Giant Could Challenge IAU Definition- Pluto, Ceres, Haumea Etc Can All Be Planets

Ethan Siegel has just written an article, "The Science Has Spoken: Pluto Will Never Be A Planet Again", so this is a response to it. I'll argue that far from "story over", actually we could make a discovery tomorrow that would tur ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 5 2017 - 6:47pm

Why I Wouldn't Fly With SpaceX To The Moon As Soon As 2018- If They Paid Me A Billion Dollars

I think the chances of the SpaceX mission around the Moon going ahead on schedule in 2018 is tiny. But on the remote chance it does, I would not fly on that mission, if you paid me a billion dollars. The problem is that they have to rely on many innovatio ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 23 2017 - 6:36pm

Is Fomahault-b A Dwarf Exoplanet- If IAU Definition Is Used?

This is an update to my article: How A "Dwarf Planet" Gas Giant Could Challenge IAU Definition- Pluto, Ceres, Haumea Etc Can All Be Planets. That article pointed out that we could discover a gas giant in our own solar system that satisfies the I ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 17 2017 - 10:53am

Accelerating Universe Expansion Without A Need To Invoke Magical Dark Energy

The umbrella term for the 68 percent of the universe that we can't detect and know nothing about has been given the umbrella term "dark energy." Like wormholes 30 years ago, it is more MacGuffin than science. You could call it aether or magi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2017 - 5:14pm

Waiting For Jupiter

This evening I am blogging from a residence in Sesto val Pusteria, a beautiful mountain village in the Italian Alps. I came here for a few days of rest after a crazy work schedule in the past few days-the reason why my blogging has been intermittent. Sesto ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2017 - 2:38pm

Starbursts In Virgo

Starburst galaxies are where stars are forming at such a breakneck rate that the galaxy is eating up its gas supply faster than it can be replenished. There are several different factors that can lead to such an ideal environment in which stars can form at ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2017 - 4:01pm

Can Giant Airships Accelerate To Orbit (JP Aerospace's Idea)?

JP Aerospace is an interesting company- in the city of Rancho Cordova, CA., California,  JP Aerospace, America's OTHER Space Program. Their aim is to develop ways to send airships up into the stratosphere- and more controversially, all the way to orb ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jul 10 2017 - 8:23pm

A Giant Fireball Thrown At Venice

In the evening of May 30 a giant fireball lit up the skies south of Venice, Italy. The object, which was traveling very slowly along a south-north trajectory, was captured by three video stations in the area, plus observed by countless bystanders and recor ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2017 - 2:28pm

Anonymous, claims NASA will announce finding (intelligent) alien life. What the....

A nonymous now has more credibility than all four big US cable news channels and the big newspapers combined.  This is due to the fact that while they and their sources are …anonymous.. they manage to find verifiable information.  This claim is different. ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 28 2017 - 6:29pm

Is Betelgeuse A Cannibal Star?

A day or two ago I came across this article ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jun 29 2017 - 2:01pm