Physical Science

Buying gifts for the adult that is interested in astronomy can have some wide variance in terms of selections. Some adults are very much into astronomy and know a fair amount about the subject. They may have a certain amount…
Read more

Anyone who thinks that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did not walk on the moon is ignorant of a few things, in my opinion, which make such an accusation of the moon landing being a hoax ridiculous. There are conspiracy…
Read more

On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo missions there are many who believe it to be a hoax. Conspiracy theories have always been popular and this is one of the biggest. The landings become even more incredible as we look…
Read more

Galileo Galilei, was an Italian inventor, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher who lived between 1564 and 1642. His discoveries let to radical, as well as controversial, changes in his time. However, what discoveries did he make that were so important,…
Read more

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, SETI, has been ongoing for almost half a century and in that time most of the attempts to make some kind of contact with any putative extraterrestrial intelligences have been by means of radio i.e….
Read more

The acronym SETI stands for the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligences. The SETI League, Incorporated is a non-governmental, non-profit organization with members ranging from professional astronomers to grassroots amateur enthusiasts, corporate research divisions to University astronomy departments. The fundamental desire of…
Read more

Many people believe that aliens exist and some also believe that aliens are visiting our planet regularly. There are certainly thousands of sightings and encounters reported each year, although how many of these can be substantiated is not clear. Certainly…
Read more

In a figurative sense, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence(SETI) predates the dawn of human history, ancient humans perceiving the stars of the night sky were gods and deities watching over them. To more primitive humans the stars were representative…
Read more

In 1992, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, set up a program, the Microwave Observing Program, MOP. MOP was designed to be a part of and a complement to the various programs then ongoing in the United States…
Read more

When the dinosaurs disappeared, so did numbers of plant and animal species. That was not the only major extinction however. There have been five in the past 600 million years. The asteroid theory is one explanation of what caused them….
Read more