Skeptophilia

One thing that never fails to leave me feeling awestruck is when I consider that astronomers figured out the shape and size of the Milky Way...

Carl Sagan once said, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." I think that's one of the main things that att...

One of the things that always blows my mind about astronomy is how good we've gotten at using indirect evidence to figure out what's...

After Monday's post, about the bizarre hypergiant star Stephenson 2-18, a reader commented, "If you think that's weird, look up...

One of the reasons science is so useful is that our intuition about how things work is so often wrong. A good example is the classic physics...

In today's installment of "The Universe Is A Really Weird Place," we have: a piece of our own galaxy that we didn't even ...

One of the beliefs of our ancestors that has taken the hardest hit from science is that the heavens are static. The (apparent) movement of t...

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Louisiana, I and several of my friends were blown away by the original series Cosmos,  writ...

I know I've said this before, so at the risk of ringing the changes on this once too many times: I find it endlessly fascinating how mu...

Seems like I've been writing a lot about the skies lately. My general opinion is that what's going on up there is not only interes...