Gamma-Ray Bursts

Living on the Edge

January 14, 2019

During our mountaineering trips I am always the cautious one, carefully charting the safest routes to our destinations. Not so much my wife. Whenever...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Life and the Transfer of Life Near the Galactic Center

March 26, 2018

In the latest issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters three astrophysicists claim that there are habitable planets near the center of our galaxy and that...

Astronomy

by Hugh Ross Read

Neutron Star Merger Explains Why We’re Here (Expanded Version)

November 3, 2017

On October 16, the physicists and astronomers who comprise the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo gravitational wave telescope research teams announced...

Geology & Earth

by Hugh Ross Read