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In 2021, University of Washington astronomer Anastasios (Andy) Tsanidakis was reviewing data collected by the European Space Agency's Ga...

Coming right on the heels of yesterday's post about a star so large the astrophysicists are at a loss to explain how it even exists, tod...

Way back around 1910, Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung and American astronomer Henry Norris Russell independently found a curious patte...

Some of you may have heard of the Sylacauga meteorite -- a 5.5 kilogram, grapefruit-sized piece of rock that gained more notoriety than mos...

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...