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One of the things I love the most about science is how one thing leads to another. Someone notices something anomalous, and thinks to ask, ...

It took astronomers a good long while to figure out how the Moon formed. Some initial working models were found, upon analysis to... well, n...

Gervase of Canterbury was a twelfth-century English monk who lived from about 1141 to 1210.  He is best known as a historical chronicler, a...

A lot of times, it's the simple, easily-stated questions that are the hardest to answer. Take, for example, the question of how the Mo...

While I first ran into the idea of life on other worlds when I was a kid watching shows like Lost in Space  and Star Trek , it wasn't un...

When I first started writing here at Skeptophilia , back in October of 2010, one of the first people to show up in a post was one Richard C....

Coming hard on the heels of yesterday's post about the claim that NASA has discovered a "lost day," thus confirming the Old Te...

The whole subject of "book reviews" has been much on my mind lately, because being (as well as a blogger) a fiction writer, with s...

In the last week or so, there's been a sudden rash of claims of discovering alien artifacts on the Moon and Mars. To which I respond: ...

The UFO-and-aliens crowd (and also the conspiracy theorists) currently have their knickers in a twist over an object that showed up on a pho...

My friend and fellow blogger Andrew Butters (of the wonderful blog Potato Chip Math , which you should all check out) recently sent me a cou...

A frequent reader and contributor to Skeptophilia sent me a link to a site that I had to look at really closely before I could figure out w...