Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Before we get into the details of the latest discovery, and for that I will be including insights directly from the discovery team themselves, I’ll first give you a bit of background context to explain why the bar is so very high for such claims – basically, we have been here before and have been … Read more
Further research into a distinctly unique rock that was found in Egypt back in 1996 has been throwing up a few deep astonishing surprises. The stone itself has been named the Hypatia stone. After some very careful and detailed analysis by researchers at the University of Johannesburg the conclusion is this … This rock does … Read more
BBC hails a discovery of a planet around a white dwarf in the habitable zone and suggests there may be life there. That suggestion has flaws.
A great deal of excitement has been generated by the JWST launch. I’ve created a list of 5 surprising things about it that are not well known
Revelations that NASA Administrator James Webb had a dark homophobic legacy has motivated NASA to consider renaming the James Webb Telescope
“As space gets more crowded, the magnitude of this effect will only be more, not less,” says the director of public policy at the International Dark-Sky Association