Skeptophilia

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...

One of the most curious unsolved problems in physics is the three-body problem , which despite its name is not about a ménage-à-trois .  It ...

If you own anything made of gold, take a look at it now. I'm looking at my wedding ring, made of three narrow interlocked gold bands.  I...

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 ...

I hope y'all will indulge me one more astronomical post, because just this week in the journal Science Advances there was a very cool p...

Anybody have any ideas about what this is? I've shown a bunch of people, and I've gotten answers from an electron micrograph of a sp...

One thing that never fails to leave me feeling awestruck is when I consider that astronomers figured out the shape and size of the Milky Way...

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...