Skeptophilia

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

A white dwarf  is the remnant of an average-to-small star at the end of its life.  When a star like our own Sun exhausts its hydrogen fuel, ...

Hamlet famously states to his friend, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,"...

I remember the first time I ran into the concept that the Earth's relatively circular orbit might not be universal amongst the planets o...