Skeptophilia

Today's topic falls into the category of "The More You Think About It, The Weirder It Gets," and comes to us courtesy of my wr...

Since the discovery of the first exoplanet in January of 1992 , astronomers have identified over 5,500 of them, with nearly a thousand of th...

Fomalhaut is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus , the Southern Fish.  At a declination (stellar latitude)...

I'm currently reading planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson's wonderful book The Sirens of Mars , about the search for signs of ...

Since (surprise!) we've all once again survived the apocalypse, and Saturday September 24, 2022 turned out to be less of a "day to ...

One of the most influential teachers I've ever had was my high school biology teacher, Jane Miller.  She had a way of making just about ...

I spend a lot of time railing against the idiotic things humans sometimes do, and heaven knows that's a fertile field to till.  But it...

It's been awfully hard to keep my spirits up lately. There are the ongoing issues -- the Omicron spike of COVID worldwide (and watching ...