“There is something out there” By Mike Brown Seven years ago this week I was preparing one of my favorite lectures for The Formation and

Harvard Astronomers Propose That Our Star System Used to Be Binary “The Sun’s long-lost companion could now be anywhere in the Milky Way.” Victor Tangermann

Giant Stealth Planet May Explain Rain of Comets from Solar System’s Edge More scientists need a companion star – or at least a very big

Good News: Mainstream Science Finally Recognizes Need for a Companion. Bad News. They Still Don’t Realize it’s Visible in the Hood. Stay Tuned. The sun

Wide binaries There has been a great observational study done recently by Hernandez et al. (see: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1873). They have looked at wide binary stars and found

The recordings and sample sounds of the planets, moons and rings of planets in our Solar System When we look at images or videos or

Search for the 9th planet Finally, the astrophysics community is officially looking for a large mass! We published our first paper and book over ten

Learn from the Best: Notable Professors at Top Research Universities Academic research is a driving force behind innovation in science, technology, and culture. The studies

Astronomers Discover Impossible Binary Systems Bibliographic information: Nefs SV et al. 2012. Four ultra-short period eclipsing M-dwarf binaries in the WFCAM Transit Survey. Accepted for

Predicting Changes in Earth Orientation – Dynamic Versus Static Solar System Model Long term predictions of changes in the earth’s orientation to VLBI sources have

Interstellar Space Beyond Our Solar System Stranger Than Expected – From Dave McComas, IBEX Principal Investigator Back in October 2009, we announced IBEX’s first major

Response to The Precession Dialogues – BAUT Forum post Several posters on the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum (BAUT) have expressed doubts about the

Asymmetrical Shape of Heliosphere Raises Questions Ever since the Voyager 2 data confirmed the nonsymmetrical shape of the solar system scientists have pondered its cause

NASA Baffled by Unexplained Force Acting on Space Probes John Anderson, retired astrophysicist from Caltech JPL has noticed something unusual: “There is something very strange

MIT Instrument Finds Surprises at Solar System’s Edge The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s Plasma Science instrument, developed at MIT in the 1970s, has turned up surprising

History and Celestial Time By Walter Cruttenden, Author ‘Lost Star of Myth and Time’ Discoveries like the ancient Greek Antikythera computer (1500 years before the