Skeptophilia

One of the most promising areas of study for astrobiologists -- scientists who are interested in the possibility of life elsewhere in the un...

Last week, I wrote a piece on the peculiarities of Jupiter's moon Io -- surely one of the most inhospitable places in the Solar System, ...

Coming hard on the heels of an encouraging paper about the possibilities of near-light-speed travel, at which we might potentially have prob...

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...