Category: Physics, Earth & Space
In Search of Circumstellar Habitable Zones
Astrobiologists have used the term for many decades. This shell encompasses the distance at which a planet in a fairly circular orbit could maintain liquid water on its surface.
Don’t Try This in the Laundry Room: Materialists Seek to Outsmart Thermodynamics
Mathematician Granville Sewell has argued in these pages that evolutionary theory is at crosscurrents with the second law of thermodynamics (the law of entropy), dooming it to failure.
In Search of Exoplanets: Defining Habitable Space Bodies
Bill Nye, among others, has speculated that "We May Discover Life on Europa."
One Thing Comet Probe Hubbub Has Right: Water Is Vital to Life Chemistry
With the landing of a probe on comet 67P, excitement has centered on the idea that life arose in water carried here by comets.
European Space Probe Lands on Comet, Heralded by Overheated Promises of Solving the Enigma of Life
At best, closely examining a comet may illustrate a scenario whereby organic molecules were delivered to our planet, or to another.