Skeptophilia

Springboarding off yesterday's post, about a mysterious flare-up of Sagittarius A* (the supermassive black hole at the center of the Mil...

I find it nothing short of mind-boggling how far we've come in creating equipment with which to explore the cosmos. The first telescope ...

When you start looking into black holes, there's a lot to be fascinated by. As you probably know, a black hole is one type of collapsed ...

If I had to pick the most paradigm-changing discovery of the twentieth century, a strong contender would be the discovery of red shift by a...

Despite all of the daily litany of depressing and/or fury-inducing news, I'm pleased to say that the scientists are still hard at work s...

Yesterday, we looked at how apparently it's impossible for some people to believe that a 79-year-old man in poor health could die in his...

So apparently, there are a number of people who have their knickers in a twist over the new Cosmos . The young-Earthers are, predictably, ...