Skeptophilia

Today's science news involves something called the Chandrasekhar Limit . Stars live for most of their lives in an equilibrium between tw...

I've been interested in rocks since I was a kid.  My dad was a rockhound -- more specifically, a lapidary, who made jewelry from such se...

Last week, I did a post about dark matter and dark energy -- and how those could potentially drive a reworking of what we know about physics...

We've learned a lot about our own galaxy by studying our "sister galaxy," Messier-31, better known as the Andromeda Galaxy .  ...