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Last week, NASA’s Cassini Mission came to an end when the spacecraft crashed into the planet Saturn. This was, of course, a planned event: a [...]
September 20, 2017
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This is a follow-up to my recent post about NASA’s next flagship-class mission. There seemed to be a lot of interest in the comments about a [...]
July 31, 2017
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Let’s imagine you’re NASA. You have two big flagship-class missions coming up: one to search for life on Mars (launcing in 2020) and another [...]
July 19, 2017
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Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, is becoming increasingly famous as one of those places in the Solar System where we’re most likely to find [...]
June 13, 2017
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Today’s post is a special A to Z Challenge edition of Sciency Words, an ongoing series here on Planet Pailly where we take a look at some [...]
April 14, 2017
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Welcome to a very special holiday edition of Sciency Words! Today’s science or science-related term is: FROST LINE When a new star is forming, [...]
December 23, 2016
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Regarding Greek mythology, it seems no one’s really sure who Dione was. Ancient sources contradict each other, and modern scholars think there [...]
October 24, 2016
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In his book All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life, author Jon Willis gives you $4 billion. How many authors do that? [...]
October 11, 2016
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Where did Saturn’s rings come from? It is possible that the rings were always there, that they formed 4.5 billion years ago along with the rest [...]
April 20, 2016
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Does life exist on Enceladus? Maybe. I don’t know. It depends. Calm down, Enceladian jellyfish thing. We’re still trying to figure this [...]
April 11, 2016
