Skeptophilia

Finding unequivocal evidence of extraterrestrial life is not as easy as science fiction makes it sound. The problem is, we're biased tow...

As much as I love the movie Contact , trying to find extraterrestrial life isn't just a matter of tuning in to the right radio frequency...

Springboarding off yesterday's post, which suggested that -- from a biochemical standpoint, at least -- extraterrestrial life might be w...

There are a lot of hurdles in detecting extraterrestrial life, and that's not even counting the possibility that it might not exist. Hon...

One of the problems faced by people who would dearly love to find unequivocal proof of extraterrestrial life is: space is big. No, not big. ...

From Gordon's Obsession #1 (paleontology) yesterday, today we're moving on to Gordon's Obsession #2: outer space and extraterres...

I get that scientific terminology can be daunting.  Scientists, and therefore scientific papers, have become so specialized that unless you ...