Skeptophilia

If I had to pick my favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , the clear winner would be "The Inner Light."  Some classi...

A criticism sometimes aimed at us science types is that our obsession with naming, classifying, and explaining everything in the universe ro...

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

In today's installment of "The Universe Is A Really Weird Place," we have: a piece of our own galaxy that we didn't even ...

If I had to pick my favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , the clear winner would be "The Inner Light."  Some classi...

Because I'm writing this in the last hours of the Trump presidency, and my other alternative is to become so anxious about what his foll...

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 ...

It's funny the questions you don't think to ask.  You find out something, accept it without any objections, and only later -- someti...

This week we've focused on some cool scientific discoveries, which is, honestly, my happy place.  So we'll round out the week with a...