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212 posts by Bruce Dorminey

• Ancient Plant Protein Could Create Climate-Resilient Crops – September 15, 2023
• New Book Details Unsung History Of NASA’s Apollo ‘Moon Buggies’ – July 6, 2021
• Is Intelligent Life As Uncommon As ‘Rare Earth’ First Proposed? – June 28, 2021
• Episode 56 — The Case For Antimatter Propulsion – June 26, 2021
• NASA Mulls Sending Balloons To Detect Quakes On Venus – June 22, 2021
• Episode 53 — New Book Takes Unique Angle On The Cold War, John Glenn, JFK and America’s Early Space Race With the Soviet Union – June 4, 2021
• 5 Eye-Opening Tidbits From America’s Space Race With The Soviets – May 31, 2021
• Episode 52 — The Unexpected Origins of Life’s Genetic Code – May 28, 2021
• Europa May Have Seafloor Volcanoes That Could Spawn Life, Says NASA – May 25, 2021
• Even If It’s A Lightsail, Oumuamua Isn’t Practical, Say Researchers – May 25, 2021
• Astronomers Nix Idea Of Super-Earth Around Barnard’s Star – May 18, 2021
• Episode 50 — Bioengineering Our Human Species To Reach The Stars – May 14, 2021
• Episode 48 — Brent Tully Celebrates 50 Years Of Mapping The Local Cosmos – April 30, 2021
• Tiny Mercury Was Likely Our Inner Solar System’s ‘Lone Survivor’ – April 30, 2021
• High-Altitude Clouds Likely Enabled Early Lakes And Rivers On Mars – April 27, 2021
• Episode 47 — How Palomar Observatory Changed Almost Everything We Knew About Astronomy – April 24, 2021
• Da Vinci And Sikorsky Also Deserve Credit For NASA’s Mars Helicopter – April 21, 2021
• Episode 46 – Harvard Geologist Andy Knoll Sums Up The Grand Sweep Of Earth’s History – April 16, 2021
• 5 Undersung Harbingers Of Earth’s Ancient Evolution – April 15, 2021
• Episode 44 — ESA’s Upcoming Euclid Dark Energy Survey – April 2, 2021
• Mars’ Massive Olympus Mons Volcano Still Puzzles Planetary Scientists – March 28, 2021
• Episode 43 — What Future And Final Galaxy Surveys Will Teach Us About The Cosmos – March 25, 2021
• Cosmic Inflation Was Likely Not A One-Off Event, Says Astronomer – March 24, 2021
• Episode 42 — Neil DeGrasse Tyson Talks About His New Book “Cosmic Queries” – March 18, 2021
• Provocative New Neil DeGrasse Tyson Book Highlights Little-Known Cosmic Tidbits – March 17, 2021
• Episode 41 — The History Of Space Exploration In 100 Objects – March 12, 2021
• ‘Liftoff’ Offers Inside Look Into SpaceX’s Desperate Early Days – March 12, 2021
• Episode 40 — Cosmic Cataclysms And The Evolution Of Intelligent Life On Earth – March 5, 2021
• Did A Comet Fragment Kill The Dinosaurs? Not Likely, Say Researchers – February 28, 2021
• Episode 39 — What NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is Teaching Us About Management and Logistics – February 26, 2021
• NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Captures Stunning New Images From Venus – February 24, 2021
• NASA Observatories Likely Detect Long-Sought 1987A Supernova Core – February 23, 2021
• Episode 38 — The Trouble With Dark Energy – February 19, 2021
• How Jupiter Set Off A Chain Of Events That Killed The Dinosaurs – February 15, 2021
• Episode 37 — Is Oumuamua, Our Solar System’s 1st Identified Interstellar Asteroid, Actually An Alien Probe? – February 13, 2021
• Harvard’s Avi Loeb Argues That ‘Oumuamua’ Was Really An Interstellar Alien Probe – February 10, 2021
• Episode 36 — NASA Aims For The Geophysical Heart Of Mars – February 5, 2021
• How Palomar’s Big Eye Telescope Forever Changed Astronomy – January 31, 2021
• Sorry, But Hostile Space Aliens Aren’t Likely To Hide From Anyone – January 30, 2021
• 5 Surprising Discoveries From NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover – January 29, 2021
• TRAPPIST-1’s Planets May Have Shockingly Similar Compositions, Says NASA – January 23, 2021
• Episode 34 — Why Geology Is Crucial To Unlocking The Mysteries Of Our Solar System – January 22, 2021
• NASA Pulls Plug On InSight Lander’s Mars Mole – January 15, 2021
• Episode 31 — Interstellar Propulsion — What We Need to Make Star Trek Real – January 1, 2021
• Episode 30 — Uranus and Neptune — Our Solar System’s Mysterious Ice Giants – December 23, 2020
• Mars Has Even Less Liquid Water Than Previously Thought – December 12, 2020
• Episode 27 — Why Mars Went Wrong – December 4, 2020
• Art Meets Exoplanets: New Book Offers Window Onto Exo-Worlds – November 30, 2020
• The Arrow Of Cosmic Time And Space Remains Vital To Our Sanity – November 29, 2020
• NASA’s Hubble Spots Galaxy Being Stripped Of Dark Matter – November 28, 2020
• Moon Rush Could Spark Conflict, Claims Study – November 26, 2020
• This week on The Cosmic Controversy Podcast, I’m pleased to welcome longtime Lowell Observatory astronomer Phil Massey as my guest – November 23, 2020
• Episode 25 — Getting To Know Andromeda, Our Grand Spiral Neighbor – November 20, 2020
• NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Tracks Massive Water Loss From Ancient Mars – November 13, 2020
• Episode 24 — How Oxygen Transformed Our Planet Earth – November 12, 2020
• Old Red Dwarf Stars Could Be Too Rambunctious To Harbor Life – October 30, 2020
• Episode 22 — The Far Future Of Our Universe (Turtles All the Way Down) – October 30, 2020
• NASA’s Webb Telescope To Scout Solar System’s Outer Graveyard – October 28, 2020
• NASA Is Losing A Portion Of Its Asteroid Sample – October 23, 2020
• Episode 21 — How Aircraft Propellers Drove The Aeronautical Revolution – October 23, 2020
• This week on Cosmic Controversy – October 18, 2020
• NASA Is Just Hours Away From First-Ever Sampling Of Asteroid’s Surface – October 17, 2020
• Episode 20 — The Case for a Lunar Science Moon Rush – October 16, 2020
• This week on the Cosmic Controversy podcast – October 10, 2020
• Episode 19 — Cracking The Code On Mercury, Our Solar System’s Innermost Mystery – October 8, 2020
• Pleased to note that Cosmic Controversy has hit the 2,000 download mark! – October 4, 2020
• Stars Without Planets Are More Numerous Than You Might Think – September 30, 2020
• New Venus Balloon Mission Study Aims To Find Life By 2022 – September 28, 2020
• Can Life Outlive Its Host Star? NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Find Out – September 16, 2020
• Venus Life Is Still A Longshot – September 15, 2020
• Episode 14 — Does the Dwarf Planet Ceres Harbor Life? – September 4, 2020
• How Covid-19 Pandemic Could Stymie Near-Term Space Tourism – August 31, 2020
• NASA Eyes Tiny Wind Turbines To Power Martian Weather Stations – August 30, 2020
• Episode 13 — Why Future Space-Based Arrays Of Optical Telescopes Will Likely Be 3D Printed In Orbit – August 28, 2020
• Ancient Extinction Event Likely Triggered By Nearby Supernova, Says New Paper – August 19, 2020
• Coming this week to Cosmic Controversy! – August 18, 2020
• Episode 11 — Betelgeuse Dimming Mystery Might Be Solved, Says Edward Guinan – August 14, 2020
• Bruce Dorminey – August 12, 2020
• Episode 10 — The Case for Mars Polar Science – August 7, 2020
• Remembering Hiroshima And Nagasaki, 75 Years After – August 5, 2020
• Solar Systems Without Gas Giants Likely To Harbor Multiple Earths – August 1, 2020
• Episode 9 — How ESA’s GAIA Satellite Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Milky Way – July 31, 2020
• Episode 6 — Why Space Aliens Won’t Need Ginormous Heads – July 10, 2020
• Episode 4 — Is the Sun an Oddball Star? – June 26, 2020
• Steam-Powered Robotic Hopper May Explore Europa, Says NASA – June 25, 2020
• Episode 2 — The Mysteries of Our Planet Venus – June 14, 2020
• What A Trump Loss In November Would Mean For NASA’s Lunar Return – June 10, 2020
• The Cosmic Controversy Podcast – June 8, 2020
• From Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage to the first mission to Mars – June 6, 2020
• Mars’ Surface Once Resembled A Volcanic Mud Stew, Say Geologists – May 25, 2020
• New Planetary Color Models Will Decode Signs Of Extrasolar Life – May 23, 2020
• E.T. Is Likely To Be More Rare Than Common In Cosmos – May 19, 2020
• How X-Ray Images Of Ancient Microfossils Will Help Identify Life On Mars – May 18, 2020
• Viruses Are Likely To Be Ubiquitous Throughout Cosmos – May 8, 2020
• How To Detect Signs Of Life From Planets Circling Dying Stars – May 1, 2020
• New Data From Martian Meteorite Hints At Conditions For Early Life – April 30, 2020
• Despite Covid-19, World’s Largest Cosmic Ray Observatory Is Still Taking Data – April 29, 2020
• How Covid-19 Is Changing Big-Time Astronomy – April 26, 2020
• Light Pollution Is Bigger Threat To Astronomy Than Satellite Constellations – April 15, 2020
• How Astronomy’s Largest Telescopic Array Is Revolutionizing Planetary Science – April 8, 2020
• Giant Elliptical Galaxies Are Not Likely To Be ‘Cradles Of Life’ – April 3, 2020
• ESA Prepares To Nudge BepiColombo Towards Mercury – March 31, 2020
• Coronavirus Halts ESO’s Science Operations – March 30, 2020
• Getting Astronauts To Mars Easier Than Magellan’s Journey Across Pacific, Says Historian – March 28, 2020
• Mars Likely Has Living Microbes At Its Poles, Say Researchers – March 16, 2020
• Lowly Slime Mold Enables New Map Of Local Cosmic Web – March 10, 2020
• Binary Stars Appear To Harbor Just As Many Planets As Single Stars, Says Study – March 1, 2020
• Life Is Likely To Persist On Planets Circling Flaring Red Dwarfs, Says Study – February 27, 2020
• Betelgeuse Has Finally Stopped Dimming, Says Astronomer – February 17, 2020
• Pallas Is So Heavily-Cratered That It Resembles An Asteroidal Golf Ball – February 13, 2020
• Geomagnetic ‘Super Storms’ Expected To Occur Once Every 25 Years, Says New Paper – January 31, 2020
• ESA’s Solar Orbiter Heat Shield Relies On Stone Age Technology – January 28, 2020
• Astronomers Spot Loads Of Oxygen In Ancient ‘Nearby’ Star – January 24, 2020
• Salt At Mars’ Poles Is Wildcard In Search For Martian Life – January 16, 2020
• Mars’ Poles Remain Key To Understanding Its Climate, Says Planetary Scientist – January 13, 2020
• 5 Astrobiology Predictions For 2020 – December 31, 2019
• Understanding Distant Dust In Other Solar Systems Is Key To Imaging Exo-Earths, Says NASA – December 27, 2019
• ‘Nonsense’ To Think Humans Will Ever Move To Nearby ExoEarth, Says Leading Planet Hunter – December 13, 2019
• Geoscientists Rethink The Calamity That Killed The Dinosaurs – December 12, 2019
• Massive Dust Towers Are Linked To Mars’ Ancient Water Loss, Says NASA – November 28, 2019
• Hibernation Could Reduce Spacecraft Size For Human Trips To Mars, Says ESA – November 18, 2019
• NASA’s 2024 Moonshot Hinges On Transcending Politics, Says Neil DeGrasse Tyson – November 10, 2019
• Will Extrasolar Earths Also Have Lightning? – October 31, 2019
• New-Found Comet Gateway Funnels Icy Bodies Into Inner Solar System – October 25, 2019
• NASA Considers Robotic Lunar Pit Mission; Moon’s Subsurface Key To Long-Term Settlement – September 26, 2019
• Why Planet Earth Needs A Starfleet Academy – September 26, 2019
• Why A Venus 2.0 Could Still Be Habitable Today – September 24, 2019
• Kepler Exoplanet Likely Has More Water Than Earth, Says Astronomer – September 17, 2019
• NASA Funds New Lunar CubeSat Orbiter Mission – September 16, 2019
• NASA And ESA Considering Sample Return Missions To Dwarf Planet Ceres – August 31, 2019
• NASA Considers Robotic Lunar Pit Mission; Moon’s Subsurface Key To Exploration – August 31, 2019
• 5 Realities Space Advocates Must Face – August 26, 2019
• NASA Selects Dozen U.S. Companies For Moon To Mars Partnerships – July 30, 2019
• Next Generation Lunar Retroreflectors Should Fly Soon – July 13, 2019
• The NASA Orbiter That Turned Lunar Science On Its Head – June 26, 2019
• 5 Things You Likely Never Knew About Apollo 11 – June 17, 2019
• Apollo 10 Gave NASA The Chutzpah To Meet JFK’s Lunar Challenge – May 19, 2019
• NASA To Put Woman On Moon By 2024; Commercial Space Will Play Major Role – May 13, 2019
• Thawing Exomoons May Have Remotely Detectable Surface Life, Say Astronomers – May 6, 2019
• Why Space Aliens Might Message Us With Encoded DNA – April 30, 2019
• NASA’s Hubble Didn’t Detect Exomoon After All, Say Astronomers – April 26, 2019
• NASA’s Hubble Spots Carbon Buckyballs In The Wispiest Reaches Of Interstellar Space – April 24, 2019
• Interstellar Meteor Likely Struck Earth In 2014, Say Astronomers – April 17, 2019
• NASA Looks Into Rechargeable Venus Lander; Powered By Microwave-Beaming Atmospheric Balloon – April 13, 2019
• Proposed NASA SmallSat Mission Could Be First To Visit Pallas, Our Third Largest Asteroid – March 10, 2019
• Fifty Billion Planets In Our Milky Way Galaxy Are Likely To Be Free Floaters, Says New Study – March 4, 2019
• Is It Time For A National Space Lottery? – February 21, 2019
• Former NASA Rocket Scientist On Why We’re Still Going Nowhere Fast – January 31, 2019
• Universe Was Rife With Iron Early On, Say Astrophysicists – June 28, 2017
• 5 Cosmic Questions For The Ages – June 27, 2017
• Getting Real About Interstellar Probes – June 19, 2017
• Solar System’s Long-Term Future Could Lie Outside Milky Way – June 7, 2017
• Sun’s Peculiar Rotation Key To Complex Life, New Data Suggests – June 5, 2017
• Time To Replace America’s Land-Based ICBMs – June 1, 2017
• NASA’s New Horizons Surprises With Whole New View Of Cosmos – April 13, 2017
• Life On Earth To Hit Brick Wall In Another 500 Million Years – April 10, 2017
• Magnetic Fields Likely Make Or Break Life As We Know It – April 10, 2017
• Physicist Wants To Beam Solar Energy Back From Moon’s Surface – March 28, 2017
• Photon Rockets Might Make Mars A Three Minute Trip – March 25, 2017
• Trump Should Make Space-Based Solar Power A National Priority – March 18, 2017
• ESA Satellite Spots Brightest Known Pulsar – February 21, 2017
• Proxima Centauri b And Most Other Exo-Planets Are Likely Uninhabitable – February 13, 2017
• Earth And Moon May Be On Long-Term Collision Course – January 31, 2017
• NASA Designs Promising New Test For Extraterrestrial Life – January 30, 2017
• Planets Around Wolf 1061 Key To Understanding ‘Venus’ – January 26, 2017
• Extrasolar Roadmap To Proxima Centauri b – December 29, 2016
• 5 Reasons Trump Should Commit To A Crewed Lunar Return – December 22, 2016
• Solar System’s Next Close Encounter Will Be With Gliese 710, Say Astronomers – December 21, 2016
• ESA’s ExoMars Prepares To Sample Lower Martian Atmosphere – December 20, 2016
• NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Boron Under Ancient Martian Lakebed – December 13, 2016
• ESA’s Mars Lander May Have Exploded On Impact – October 21, 2016
• 5 Reasons To ‘Farm’ In Low-Earth Orbit – July 18, 2016
• Sun Has Likely Entered New Evolutionary Phase, Say Astronomers – June 27, 2016
• Interstellar Defense Network Might Avert Real-Life ‘Independence Day’ – June 23, 2016
• Russian Hypersonic Glider Weapons Would Easily Penetrate U.S. Defenses, Says Expert – June 14, 2016
• E.O. Wilson Chases The ‘Great Riddle’ Of Human Existence – June 8, 2016
• 5 Reasons To Leave The Solar System? – May 31, 2016
• How To ‘Optically-Mine’ Water From An Asteroid – May 24, 2016
• Hiding From Hostile Space Aliens Is No Longer An Option – May 19, 2016
• Life In A Lunar Lava Tube: Nearside Tunnels As Ready-Made Moonbases – May 7, 2016
• 5 Takeaways From ESA’s Rosetta Comet Mission – April 30, 2016
• NASA Now Has New Options For Sampling Moon’s Ancient Interior – April 29, 2016
• Can Commercial Space Really Get Us Beyond Low-Earth Orbit? – April 27, 2016
• Why E.T. Would Also Breathe Oxygen – April 9, 2016
• Why E.T. Will Need Customer Service – April 7, 2016
• Brainstorming New Ways To Test If Cosmos Is One Big Computer Simulation – April 1, 2016
• 5 Questions For E.T – March 31, 2016
• Astronomers Can’t Rule Out Alien Megastructure Around Kepler Star – March 31, 2016
• Planet 9 May Hail From Sun’s Stellar Birth Cluster – March 30, 2016
• Venus Likely Had Past Life; Next Step Is Finding It – March 27, 2016
• China Likely To Beat NASA Back To The Moon – March 24, 2016
• America’s Space Heritage Is Rotting ‘In Place’ – February 29, 2016
• NASA Venus Landsail Rover Could Launch In 2023 – February 29, 2016
• Astronomers Create Largest-Ever Catalog Of Cosmic Voids – February 27, 2016
• Antimatter Space Propulsion Possible Within A Decade, Say Physicists – February 24, 2016
• North Korea Aims For Submarine-Launched Nuclear Missiles – February 14, 2016
• Solar Systems Like Ours Remain Scarce – January 31, 2016
• Aviation on Mars? Airbus Perlan 2 Glider To Help Test Its Limits – January 31, 2016
• 5 Down-To-Earth Takeaways From ‘The Martian’ – January 23, 2016
• Sun Still Capable Of Monstrous Super-Flares, Say Astronomers – January 8, 2016
• Mars Curiosity Engineer Rips NASA In New Book – December 31, 2015
• Extrasolar Planet-Hunting Hits Home – December 29, 2015
• ESA Makes Last-Ditch Effort To Recontact Comet Lander – December 26, 2015
• Super-Earth In Outer Solar System Is Incredibly Unlikely – December 20, 2015
• Will NASA Ever Send Astronauts To Pluto? – November 23, 2015
• Why An Interplanetary Fuel Stop Makes Sense For Human Missions To Mars – October 15, 2015
• Why ‘Alien Hunters’ See ‘Warp Drive’ As A SETI Nonstarter – September 30, 2015
• 5 Reasons Why The International Space Station (ISS) Should Really Orbit The Moon – September 11, 2015
• Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System – September 7, 2015
• Lessons From Dying Extrasolar Earths – September 5, 2015
• Rethinking ‘The Martian’: Why Dust Storms Wouldn’t Sabotage A Real Mars Mission – September 2, 2015
• NASA And The Politics Of Going Back To The Moon – September 2, 2015