Skeptophilia

A few days ago, I got an interesting email: DO YOU WANT YOUR NAME TO BE REMEMBERED FOREVER? With the Hubble Space Telescope and the James We...

In Madeleine L'Engle's seminal young-adult fantasy novel The Wind in the Door , there's something that is making the stars go ou...

Since the news down here on Earth is not looking so good, today we're going to escape to my happy place, which is outer space. We've...

Today's topic falls into the category of "The More You Think About It, The Weirder It Gets," and comes to us courtesy of my wr...

I'm kind of an excitable type. I think that may be why I went into science.  The rigorous, evidence-basted methods of science were a nic...

Fomalhaut is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus , the Southern Fish.  At a declination (stellar latitude)...

Way back around 1910, Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung and American astronomer Henry Norris Russell independently found a curious patte...

Hamlet famously states to his friend, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,"...

The ultimate speed limit in the universe -- unbreakable, as far as our current understanding of science goes -- is the speed of light, 3x10^...

Ever heard of Algol ? Known to astronomers as Beta Persei, it's the second-brightest star in the constellation of Perseus.  It was singl...