Skeptophilia

An impending astronomical event has brought to the general attention a phenomenon called a nova .  Misleadingly named after the Latin word f...

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

I know I often write about strange and unexpected discoveries out there in the universe in the context of how much more we have to learn, bu...