Skeptophilia

The death of massive stars, ten or more times the mass of the Sun, is thought to have a predictable -- if violent -- trajectory. During most...

To end the week on an appropriately surreal note: no, the Earth will not "lose its gravity" for seven seconds on August 12 . I fou...

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...

Most likely all of you know about Sagittarius A* , the supermassive black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It's har...

I recall seeing a comic strip a while back making fun of one of the features of Star Trek  that doesn't seem ridiculous until you think ...

Sometimes there's a scientific discovery that's just such an "oh, wow!" that I have to tell you about it. Like the researc...

One of the weirder claims of modern physics, which I first ran into when I was reading about string theory a few years ago, is that the univ...

An impending astronomical event has brought to the general attention a phenomenon called a nova .  Misleadingly named after the Latin word f...

In Madeleine L'Engle's seminal young-adult fantasy novel The Wind in the Door , there's something that is making the stars go ou...

If you're the kind of person who likes having your mind blown by superlatives, astrophysics is the science for you. I ran into two reall...