“Down to Earth” Benefits of Looking Up at the SkyIn Oscar Wilde’s play “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” Lord Darlington observes: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the…1d ago1d ago
Commemorating Past Civilizations in the Milky-WayIn about a billion years, the Sun is forecasted to brighten up and turn the Earth into a desert like Mars. Based on the star formation…2d ago92d ago9
Are the Lost Soviet Spacecraft Venera 2 and the Dark Comet 2005 VL1 Different Objects?For the reason that koalas should not be classified as monkeys without a visible tail, spacecraft should not be classified as dark comets…4d ago14d ago1
Betrayal of Scientific Objectivity by the News MediaOn March 11, 2025, Cosmos Magazine published an article by Lauren Fuge about the scientific expedition to retrieve materials from the…5d ago115d ago11
Will Artificial Intelligence Win Over Natural Stupidity?My career in astrophysics started in 1987, when John Bahcall offered me a five-year postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton’s Institute for…Mar 1013Mar 1013
The Dark Age of ScienceNames do not constitute knowledge. However, some scientists enjoy the illusion that they know something about things by giving them names…Mar 919Mar 919
Death by a Primordial Black HoleThe early universe could have given birth to primordial black holes. If rare regions had an enhanced mass density such that their…Mar 75Mar 75
Is the “Dark Comet” 2005-VL1 the Venera-2 Spacecraft?A few months ago, a new paper was published in Publications of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) regarding a population of near-Earth…Mar 53Mar 53
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? An Experimental TestIn anticipation for my next public lecture, the organizer requested the title of my lecture. I suggested: “Hunting for Aliens.” The…Mar 438Mar 438
Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the JewsTomorrow, I am scheduled for a public interview with the distinguished science journalist, Joshua Foer, on the topic: “Extraterrestrial…Mar 125Mar 125
