Bruce Dorminey

Recent Articles

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  Why Cosmic ‘Dark Matter’ Is Living On Borrowed Time

  February 20, 2026

  A plethora of newly discovered baryonic (or normal) dark matter signals the first step toward the end of dark matter theory. Or so say the authors of a new paper just accepted by the journal Physical Review D.

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  Massive Venus Lava Tube Detected Using Data From NASA’s Long-Defunct Magellan Spacecraft

  February 12, 2026

  NASA’s Magellan Mission to Venus is the gift the keeps on giving, providing Italian researchers with the first solid detection of a massive subsurface lava tube on Venus. They detail their findings in a new paper appearing in the journal Nature Communications.

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  Looking For Advanced Aliens? Search For Exoplanets With Large Coal Deposits

  February 07, 2026

  Strange as it may seem, the prospects of finding advanced high-tech aliens somewhere in the cosmos will likely depend on finding exoplanets that like our own earth harbor large amounts of accessible energy-dense coal.

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  Boron Could Be Astrobiology’s Unsung Hero

  January 30, 2026

  The light, rare element boron, better known as the primary component of borax, a longtime household cleaner, was almost mined to exhaustion in parts of the old American West. But boron could arguably be an unsung hero in cosmic astrobiology, although it's still not listed as one of the key elements needed for the onset of life.