Category Archives: planets

More fuss over Enceladus

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Chris Rowan

Big subsurface ocean? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
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Categories: geology, paper reviews, planets

More than hot Jupiters

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Chris Rowan

A fair number of extra-solar planets would fit right into our own solar system.
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Categories: geology, planets

Kepler and the Rare Earth hypothesis

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Chris Rowan

Kepler is not designed to directly find life-bearing worlds, but may give us some hints about their abundance.
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Categories: geology, planets

The changing face of Titan

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Chris Rowan

Hydrocarbon rain and ice volcanoes – Titan changes before Cassini’s eyes
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Categories: geology, paper reviews, planets

Note to media: “speculation” is not a synonym for “discovery”

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Chris Rowan

breathless reporting from the AAAS conference is starting to annoy me.
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Categories: general science, planets, public science, ranting