Skeptophilia

Finding unequivocal evidence of extraterrestrial life is not as easy as science fiction makes it sound. The problem is, we're biased tow...

Last week, I wrote a piece on the peculiarities of Jupiter's moon Io -- surely one of the most inhospitable places in the Solar System, ...

Coming hard on the heels of an encouraging paper about the possibilities of near-light-speed travel, at which we might potentially have prob...