Rant
Enjoy the Pluto Show! Nothing else to see here.
Jared Isaacman's Pluto push is a master class in science populism
Science Communication
About "to" and "around" the Moon
Technically correct is not, in fact, the best kind of correct in scicomm
TLDR
The asteroid Ryugu contains every letter of the genetic alphabet
This is awesome, but does not mean life fell to Earth from space
Astrobiology
Maybe don't call exoplanets "Earth-like" until the 2040s
A plea and a note on science communication
Space
Hot rocks are what's cool in rocky exoplanet research
Habitable zone? Pfft. For exciting planetary science discoveries, keep your eye on lava worlds and hot rocks.
Astrobiology
A bad month for space whales
Two new papers on Europa and Titan complicate the case for habitable oceans on the icy moons. They're still our best bet for finding aliens.
Astrobiology
What do space sugars tell us about the origin of life?
The mystery of life's origin is not a missing magic ingredient, it's a missing process.
Astrobiology
There is no time telescope
The Mars that may have hosted life long ago is our neighbor in space only.
Satire
The Loeb Scale for science PR disasters
The Loeb Scale measures the severity of science PR disasters from typos to fraud