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The list of confirmed exoplanets now exceeds six thousand.  Considering the fact that the three main ways they're detected -- direct me...

I'll start today with a quote (often misquoted) from William Shakespeare -- more specifically, Hamlet , Act I, Scene 5: Horatio: O day a...

Today I'm going to focus on outer space, because if I don't I'll be forced to deal with events down here on Earth, and it's ...

Okay, can we all please please puhleeeeeez  stop posting stuff without checking to see if it's true? I know it's a pain in the ass, ...

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...