Space

Not So Elementary (the Cosmos, That Is)

Recently there are appeared a paper showing how  Physics- Iron–Helium Compounds Form Under Pressure. which suggests that there might be helium from the original nebula from which the Sun and solar system formed still locked up in the Earth’s core. This as ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Apr 15 2025 - 5:10am

No Goldilocks, Webb Telescope Didn't Discover Life On K2-18b

K2-18b, detected in 2015, orbits a star 124 light years away. Though it is over 800% as large as Earth, its space in the habitable zone of its star, like where we are, means the possibiliy that liquid water could exist on its surface. The science community ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 17 2025 - 2:51pm

Earth-Like Exoplanets Are Common

A new study of light anomalies combined with results from a Korea Microlensing Telescope Network microlensing survey show that super-Earths exist as far from their host star as our gas giants are from the sun. Which means that Earth-like exoplanets are a l ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2025 - 4:30am

The Night Sky From Atacama

For the third time in 9 years I am visiting San Pedro de Atacama, a jewel in the middle of nowhere in northern Chile. The Atacama desert is a stretch of extremely dry land at high altitude, which makes it exceptionally attractive for astronomical activitie ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 4 2025 - 9:46am

Black Holes: Now With No Singularity

Albert Einstein has been proven right many times but some things his equations predicted have yet to be shown to be science and yet remain part of the popular consciousness about science. Like a "singularity", where the laws of physics cease to a ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2025 - 8:33am

The 53-Year Odyssey Of Kosmos 482 And The Push For Sustainable Space

A Fallen Spacefarer Returns to Earth ...

Article - Mark Pierce - May 19 2025 - 12:00am

Why Does Saturn Radiate Twice The Energy It Absorbs From The Sun?

Saturn emitted less energy each year from 2005 to 2009, according to observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but Saturn's southern hemisphere consistently emitted more energy than its northern one and those energy levels changed with the seaso ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2025 - 1:13am