Skeptophilia

I first ran into the concept that not all planets had hard, rocky surfaces -- like Earth, and the ones I was all too familiar with from scie...

If I had to vote for the single weirdest place in the Solar System, my choice would be Jupiter's moon Io . Io is the innermost and third...

By anyone's standards, Jupiter's moon Io is a strange place.  It is by far the most geologically-active body in the Solar System, w...

On Monday, we looked at some new techniques for detecting exoplanets, and how exciting that is for people like me who are obsessed with extr...

In this line of business, it's all too common to run into something so stupid that at first, you think it's a joke.  No one, you thi...

So it's December, which means it's time for Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Our Fellow Humans, and Death Asteroids. I'm not s...

A friend and fellow Skeptophile sent a story to my attention on Facebook that seems fitting for the last Skeptophilia post of 2013.  It com...