Skeptophilia

Today's topic in Skeptophilia isn't controversial so much as it is amazing.  And shows us once again what a weird, endlessly fascin...

When you think about it, wind is a strange phenomenon. In its simplest form, wind occurs when uneven heating of the surface of the Earth cau...

The Moon orbits the Earth in such a way that the same side always faces us.  Put another way, its periods of revolution and rotation are the...

Coming hard on the heels of an encouraging paper about the possibilities of near-light-speed travel, at which we might potentially have prob...

When NASA's New Horizons  probe made a flyby of Pluto last summer, it sent back remarkably detailed photographs of this strange frozen ...