Scientists looking for the origin of Earth’s water have been studying the composition of meteorites. According to current theories of planet formation the earth was formed by gas, dust and rocky objects called planetesimals coalescing to form a solid rocky planet, and this process results in the formation of a hot molten mass that must […]
These are some of the many claims made about the James Webb Space Telescope after the first images taken by the telescope were released. When describing an image of the Carina Nebula Katie Mack, Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, wrote: “Where Hubble’s view showed us the […]
A popular theory about the formation of stars is that most stars are formed in pairs or triplets. An article in Science Alert 9 December 2021 asks: “If most stars are born with a partner, where’s ours?” To answer this question the article refers to a study by two astronomers from UC Berkeley and the […]
Bulging galaxy baffles scientists, according to ScienceDaily 11 February 2021 and Science 12 February 2021 doi: 10.1126/science.abc1893. According to current astronomical theories, viewing objects a long way away in space is like looking back in time because we are seeing the light that left the object a long time ago. Therefore, by studying objects that […]
Cracked cosmology says we shouldn’t exist, according to an article in BBC Science Focus 16 January 2021, entitled “The cracks in cosmology: Why our Universe doesn’t add up”. Science writer and former radio astronomer, Marcus Chown reports there are serious problems with the Big Bang theory. Chown writes “the basic Big Bang picture requires a […]
Japanese bring asteroid sample back to earth and all types of claims emerge about finally finding the origin of the solar system and life. Over the past few years scientists have sent probes to the far reaches of the solar system and collected comet dust, meteorites and now asteroid material, all with the purpose of […]
How old did you say the universe is? 15 July 2020: “Now new research published in a series of papers by an international team of astrophysicists, including Neelima Sehgal, PhD, from Stony Brook University, suggest the universe is about 13.8 billion years old.” ScienceDaily 15 July 2020 27 July 2020: “Using known distances of 50 […]
Time to take SETI seriously, claim top astronomers, according to BBC News 15 February 2020. SETI is the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, a project which began in the 1980s but has not produced any positive results. According to Anthony Beasley, director of US National Radio Astronomy Observatory claims it is “time for Seti to come […]
Universe gets younger, according to reports in PhysOrg 12 September 2019, Science Alert 13 September 2019 and Science 13 September 2019 doi: 10.1126/science.aat7371. The Big Bang theory claims the universe started as an incredibly tiny “singularity” that rapidly expanded, and has been expanding ever since. The rate of expansion is known as the Hubble constant. […]
DNA sugar made in ‘fake’ space, claim NASA scientists in NASA News 19 December 2018 and Nature Communications, published online 18 December 2018, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07693-x. DNA is a large complex molecule consisting of a long chain of smaller components named nucleotides. Each nucleotide is three-part molecule that includes a sugar named deoxyribose (the D in […]