Skeptophilia

A loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me an email asking me what my opinion was about two current candidates for evidence of alien spacecraft...

I was an undergraduate when the original Cosmos  first aired. It was back in 1980, and I still remember being blown away by it all -- the me...

The difficult thing about any sort of historical research is that sometimes, the evidence you're looking for doesn't even exist. In ...

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." So wrote William Shakespeare in Hamle...

Carl Sagan once said, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." I think that's one of the main things that att...

If I had to pick my favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , the clear winner would be "The Inner Light."  Some classi...

The universe is a dangerous place. I'm not talking about crazy stuff happening down here on Earth, although a lot of that certainly qual...

I was pondering the question of what the hell is wrong with so many of the people in positions of power on our planet, and I've come to ...

The more exoplanets we find, the more they challenge our notion of how planets should be. For the many of us who grew up watching Star Trek ...