Skeptophilia

Some of you probably have read about  a project called Breakthrough Starshot  that began perhaps eight years ago (and which was championed b...

Springboarding off yesterday's post, about how easy it is to form organic compounds abiotically, today we have: our nearest neighbor mig...

In yet another blow to those of us who would dearly love to find incontrovertible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, the signal that...

I try to keep my rational brain engaged, but man, sometimes it's hard going. Like when I read the story that popped up over at Scientifi...

Are you looking for something to occupy you while you're stuck home?  For the month of April, I'm putting my online course An Introd...

Two years ago I wrote about a project called Breakthrough Starshot , which proposed sending small remote-controlled cameras to nearby star s...