Skeptophilia

It's remarkably hard to find evidence of impact craters on the Earth. If you're thinking, "What's the difficulty?  Just loo...

In H. P. Lovecraft's terrifying and atmospheric 1927 short story " The Colour Out of Space ," a meteorite strikes near a farmh...

At the last Tompkins County Friends of the Library Used Book Sale, I picked up a copy of Donald Yeomans's fascinating book titled Near-E...

Lately I've been seeing a lot of buzz on social media apropos of the Earth being hit by a killer asteroid. Much of this appears to be wi...

Scary place, this universe of ours. I've dealt here before with some cosmic-level catastrophes -- supernovas and Wolf-Rayet stars and ...

Today's post is a scientific puzzle that -- so far -- doesn't have an answer. I'm sure you've all had the lovely experience ...

Because we all clearly needed something else to worry about, today we have: the mega-asteroids of doom. This comes up because of a new pro...

One of the reasons that it is critical that we all be science-literate is because it is becoming increasingly apparent that the popular medi...