Skeptophilia

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...

The brilliant British astrophysicist Becky Smethurst said, "The cutting edge of science is where all the unknowns are."  And far ...

A couple of weeks ago, I began a post with a quote from physicist Albert Michelson  in which he confidently claimed that everything in physi...

Ever heard of TON 618 ? I hadn't until a few days ago, which is surprising considering my dual fascination with (1) astronomy, and (2) t...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, astrophysicist Vera Rubin discovered something odd about the rates at which stars were revolving around their ...

At the center of our seemingly tranquil galaxy, there's a black hole massive enough that it significantly warps spacetime, swallows any...

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Louisiana, I and several of my friends were blown away by the original series Cosmos,  writ...

I know I've said this before, so at the risk of ringing the changes on this once too many times: I find it endlessly fascinating how mu...

It's awfully easy to get discouraged lately. The news seems to go from bad to worse every day.  Government corruption, terrorist attac...