Skeptophilia

Astrophysicists have a fairly clear idea about how planetary systems form. The whole thing starts with a nebula -- a cloud of interstellar g...

There's a general pattern you see in astrophysics, which arises from the fact that gravity is both (1) always attractive, never repulsiv...

One of the main things that separates scientists from the rest of us is that they notice things we would just take for granted. Gregor Men...

In yesterday's post, I looked at some new photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope of one of the oddest objects in the universe -- th...