343E-366-3 Explorers
Recently, my Grandsons, Dane and Hank joined our asteroid hunting team at the Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon. The most interesting of our discoveries, 2017 KJ32 is only 16 feet in...
1 Juli 20252min
855-Planetary Defense
In 2016 NASA created the Planetary Defense Coordination Office to manage the mission of finding, tracking, and studying asteroids and comets which could pose an impact threat to our home planet.The NA...
27 Juni 20252min
342E-365-Tabby's Star
The mystery of Tabby's star began to unfold when in 2015 Dr. Tabetha S. Boyajian [boy-AA-jee-uhn] of Louisiana State University and her team published a paper describing the irregular dips in the ligh...
24 Juni 20252min
854-Weird Planet Exotic Life?
Data are consistent with the hypothesis that the planet K2-18b is a Hycean planet with a warm liquid water ocean teaming with life and a thin hydrogen rich atmosphere containing methane and other mole...
20 Juni 20252min
341E-364-Laser Surfing
When we find a planet which appears to have the chemical signs of living organisms in its atmosphere, the desire to take a close up look at it will be hard to contain. In a Scientific American article...
17 Juni 20252min
853-Tardigrade
In the search for life on Mars, Europa, Titan, and elsewhere in the universe astro-biologists are scouring the Earth for creatures tough enough to flourish under really difficult conditions. So far th...
13 Juni 20252min
852-Landing On Mars
The good news is a Mars landing by human colonists and their equipment seems technically feasible given a large budget of cash and grit.
6 Juni 20252min
339E-359-Ice World
Recently Dr. Yossi Shvartzvald led a team which published their discovery of an Earth sized planet using microlensing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The newly discovered planet OGLE-2016-BLG-11...
3 Juni 20252min
