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It's always a little surprising to find out that phenomena that are (figuratively speaking) right in our own neighborhood are still a my...

Regular readers of Skeptophilia  may recall a post I did about a year ago about the Miyake Events , seven wild solar storms that occurred ov...

And to end the week on an appropriately surreal note, yesterday I received a friendly email from a loyal reader of Skeptophilia of the ...

In keeping with the stargazing topics that have been our focus this week, today we're going to start with my favorite naked-eye astronom...

If you needed further evidence of why we need sound science education -- and what happens when we don't -- look no further than " S...

Because we evidently don't have enough to worry about, now we have news that a rogue dead star has entered our Solar System and is eatin...

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...

Yesterday I received a friendly email from a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  of the "You think that  is stupid, wait till you see this ...

If you needed further evidence of why we need sound science education -- and what happens when we don't -- look no further than " ...

Just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a hoax-gone-viral in which a Clickhole  piece convinced a lot of folks that Adam Sandler was the ...

At what point does a publication become so filled with dangerous misinformation that the powers-that-be should step in and shut it down? I...

Coming hard on the heels of claims that Comet ISON is an omen of impending doom to humanity is another claim, to wit: the upcoming reversal ...