Physical Science

Buying your family’s first astronomical telescope is one of the best small investments you can make. And, buying an inexpensive astronomical telescope at your local superstore may improve your golf game or bowling score. Why? Because that scope may soon…
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The universe is defined as everything that exists, including all matter and energy. While there are many theories about how it began, the one that has gained credibility among scientists is called the Big Bang. The Big Bang Theory states…
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Adrastea is one of Jupiter’s small inner moons, similar in position and composition to Thebe and Metis. After its discovery in 1979, it was given the name of Zeus’s foster mother in Greek mythology. In the Roman pantheon, the Greek…
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1958, and the Russians send the first satellite into space. This satellite was named Sputnik. Sometime later, the Americans did the same. Not wishing {or willing} to be outdone by the Russians, especially in a field of this importance. The…
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The writer has embarked on writing this article in response to the large amount of scientific literature which treats the Big Bang idea about the origin of the Universe as though it were an indisputable fact. In scientific circles, opinions…
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Triton is Neptune’s largest moon by size, and overall is the solar system’s seventh-largest. Like Neptune, it is relatively poorly understood because of the lack of dedicated space probes to planets beyond Saturn, but it is believed to be a…
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I am not going to attempt to prove my point by citing un-provable sightings of UFOs or alien landings. I am going to use simple reason and logic. In 1961 a professor at Cornell by the name of Frank Drake…
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Imagine an atmospheric explosion so powerful that 800 square miles of trees fall to the ground, pointing outward from a central point. That very thing happened on June 30, 1908, in a very remote area of Siberia called Tunguska. The…
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What are the facts from Mars really telling us? We have been engaging our greatest technologists to design missions to Mars to discover whether the “canals” are full of water or whether we have extraterrestrial cousins. But what is the…
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The tragedy of the in capsule Apollo 1 fire in 1967 could have been avoided if the American space program adopted its first preference for a sea level pressure in-cabin atmosphere. But the parameters for 100 percent Oxygen at reduced…
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