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Venus
Photo: Venus, by NASA/JPL-Caltech.

New Analysis Casts Doubt on Claims for Life on Venus

The newer study agrees that the composition of Venus’s atmosphere is unusual but not that it is evidence for life. Read More ›
Uranus
Photo: Uranus, by NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Casey Luskin: Questions Across the Cosmos

Following his wonderful talk at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, geologist Casey Luskin took questions from the audience. Read More ›
Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
Photo: Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, by Mihaisiscanu, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

SETI Activists Still Don’t Get the Irony

Most SETI advocates stringently oppose intelligent design even as they rely on it. Read More ›
Earthrise
Photo: Earthrise, by Bill Anders, Apollo 8, via NASA.

Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There

The Copernican Principle has been misused to imply that Earth is somehow insignificant. That is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science. Read More ›
astronaut 2
Photo: Astronaut Peggy Whitson on a spacewalk, March 2017, by NASA.

Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel

A skeptic might ask, “Couldn’t a more technologically advanced civilization develop new sources of fuel that require less mass?” Read More ›
Earth Mars Comparison
Photo: Fertile Earth juxtaposed with barren Mars, via NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Plate Tectonics: Why Life Is Served on Plates

The ground under your feet is literally moving. The continents are drifting apart near an average rate of one inch per year. Read More ›
kingfisher
Darwinism
Photo: Azure Kingfisher, by JJ Harrison, [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Read Carefully, Nature News Conspires to Refute Darwinism

The kingfisher bird has to dive after fish rapidly without busting its beak. Japanese scientists looked into the physics of this, and redesigned the noses of their bullet trains. Read More ›
ISS
Photo: International Space Station, NASA/Roscosmos.

Gonzalez: “Worlds Like This Are Hard to Come By”

How special the Earth is has become ever more apparent, in ways that allow life to flourish, but more than that. Read More ›
sun and earth
The Privileged Planet
Photo: The Earth and the Sun, as seen from the International Space Station, by NASA.

On the 15th Anniversary of The Privileged Planet: An Update

The basic thesis of TPP is that the best places for intelligent observers are also the best places for observing. Read More ›
Artist’s impression of exoplanet orbiting two stars
Fermi Paradox
Image: An exoplanet (artist’s rendering), by ESA/Hubble [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Exoplanets and the Fermi Paradox

Contrary to first impressions, exoplanet discoveries actually strengthen the impact of the Fermi Paradox. Read More ›

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