Space

A Simple Way To Assess The Likelihood K2-18 b Host Alien Life. The Odds Are Almost 50-50.

H ow can you as a person who is not a scientist know if a given claim of having found alien life is valid?  In 2014 I used the planet Kepler 186f as an object for discussing this very question.  First of all, at best we can know the odds that a given plan ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 25 2023 - 3:42pm

Asteroid 2007 FT3 Will Not Hit Us, And Other Predictions For 2024. Suppose It Did Hit Us.

I n the past I have predicted certain things at the start of certain years.  This is a selection of those which I recall, along with issues I am watching out for the next year.  They include a solar eclipse that will happen, and an asteroid that is not li ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 2 2024 - 1:52pm

Revealed: The Color Of Uranus

It is commonly said that Neptune is azure blue and Uranus pale cyan green – but a new study shows the two ice giants are actually far closer in color than typically thought. Because Uranus’ appearance and color has changed over the decades in response to t ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2024 - 8:42pm

Herds And Shepherds In Cosmology

The Universe is very large, and we are very small compared to it, not only in size. Creating a cosmology that attempts to explain the whole existing Universe is an obsession shared by all cultures. We think we now have the true cosmological model, like ma ...

Article - Martín López Corr... - Jan 19 2024 - 1:41pm

Avi Loeb And Aliens: The Right And Wrong of Science Funding. (Also Bing Image Search Brings up Porno When you Search for him)

A vi Loeb he prolific Harvard astrophysicist, dances on the edge of cosmic controversy. His research spans black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the early universe, but it’s his extraterrestrial musings that have set tongues wagging. What he is right about i ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 11 2024 - 12:46pm

How Is The Date Of Easter Calculated? The Science Answer

If you Google calculating the date of Easter, you are likely to get any number of top responses from SEO-friendly content farms that go something like "Easter is the first Sunday after the first full Moon following the vernal equinox", which is g ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2024 - 10:37am

Could There Be Life On Saturn's Moons? New Discovery By Cassini Spacecraft Raises Hopes

Life may be common amongst the stars, but perhaps very far away. But new research published in Nature hints that it could be much closer than we expected. And it may be on a world of water and ice.  It seems that in a posthumous gift to humanity, the celeb ...

Article - Benjamin Janaway - Apr 19 2024 - 3:58pm