Category Archives: planets

The source of Enceladus’ plumes

An interesting picture from Enceladus, currently everyone’s favourite geologically active, extra-terrestrial body:

Categories: paper reviews, planets

Out of the ice age, into the asteroid shower

Was the biggest cold snap in the last deglaciation caused by an extraterrestrial impact?
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Categories: climate science, geochemistry, geohazards, paper reviews, past worlds, planets, Pleistocene

Peru’s new crater extra-terrestrial, but illness not

One of the main risks of our media-saturated world is that although events can make it onto our TV and computer screens with unrivaled speed, this does not necessarily mean we have any idea of what’s actually going on, which … Continue reading

Categories: geology, planets, public science

Mars less wet than we thought?

Mars has a habit of disappointing us; exotic possibilities are presented to us, before fading away into nothingness when we look more closely. Percival Lowell’s canals didn’t survive close scrutiny, and now Phil reports that the merciless gaze of the … Continue reading

Categories: paper reviews, planets

Trilobites didn’t go extinct…

…they just evolved into beings of pure electromagnetism and infested the sun. I know that we humans are prone to finding familiar patterns in weird places, but I have to say I find the claimed resemblance less than compelling. When … Continue reading

Categories: planets, public science