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The New York Times
Opinion: Gawking in Awe at the Universe, Together
July 12, 2022
Manhattahenge Is Back for Picture-Perfect Sunsets on New York's Grid
May 29, 2022
Moon Cube and Mysteries of the Solar System
December 8, 2021
Earth to Voyager 2: After a Year in the Darkness, We Can Talk to You Again February 12, 2021
Life on Venus? The Picture Gets Cloudier
February 8, 2021
Neptune's Weird Dark Spot Just Got Weirder
December 22, 2020
Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds
September 14, 2020
Missions to Venus: Highlights From History and When We May Go Back
September 14, 2020
Jupiter’s Biggest Moons Started as Tiny Grains of Hail
May 18, 2020
When Voyager 2 Calls Home, Earth Soon Won’t Be Able to Answer
March 4, 2020
Opinion: We’re Living Act 1 of the Disaster Films We Grew Up With
November 8, 2019
LightSail 2 Unfurls, Next Step Toward Space Travel by Solar Sail
July 23, 2019
Imagining the Moon
July 9, 2019
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Deploys Dozens of Satellites to Orbit
June 25, 2019
Space is Very Big, Some of Its Explorers Will Be Tiny
March 18, 2019
Opinion: NASA Is Cooler Than Ryan Gosling
October 13, 2018
New Antarctica Map Is Like ‘Putting on Glasses for the First Time and Seeing 20/20’
September, 7 2018
The Washington Post
Opinion:
Going to Mars during a pandemic isn’t easy. But science must go on
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July 29, 2020
Opinion:
Taming fire let humans thrive. Now man-made flames in the Amazon threaten us all.
August 27, 2019
Opinion:
Elon Musk’s satellites threaten to disrupt the night sky for all of us
June 5, 2019
Opinion: Notre Dame is no stranger to catastrophe — or recovery
April 16, 2019
Longreads
An Atlas of the Cosmos
October, 2020 (Selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021)
The Hunt for Planet Nine
(Selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020) January 2019
Welcome to the Center of the Universe
(Selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019) March 2018
Vox
2020 Was a Time Warp
December 22, 2020
Wired
Weekly Space Photos Column
September 2017-May 2020
The Atlantic
The Quest to Kill the Superbug That Can Survive in Outer Space
March 28, 2017
The NASA Team that Kills Spacecraft
September 12, 2017
Esquire
We Live on Another Planet Now
September 10, 2020
Slate
Why I’m Mourning the Arecibo Telescope
November 23, 2020
Keep the Space Force off the International Space Station
November 2, 2020
Scientific American
New NASA Mission Will Fly Titan’s Frigid Skies to Search for Life’s Beginnings
June 27, 2019
Dancing Dwarf Galaxies Deepen Dark Matter Mystery
February 1, 2018
Rolling Stone Magazine
Mission to Mars (Print and Web)
March 1, 2019
National Geographic
The moon releases surprising amounts of water during meteor showers
April 15, 2019
Other 'Earths' are out there. Here are the best places to look
March 26, 2019
Dear Cassini: Why the Saturn Spacecraft Brings Me to Tears
September 14, 2018
Popular Science
The Parker Solar Probe is the single greatest innovation of 2018
November 27, 2018
NASA's InSight lander is basically about to play an epic claw game on Mars
November 27, 2018
NASA's InSight lander survived 'seven minutes of terror' to touch down on Mars
November 26, 2018
NASA's new Mars lander is in for 'seven minutes of terror' on Monday
November 20, 2018
Volcanoes might have formed on Mars the same way they did in Hawaii
November 15, 2018
After 11 years, NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft is running out of fuel
September 10, 2018
NASA is preparing for future space missions by exploring underwater volcanoes off Hawaii
August 27, 2018
NASA's next mission will give us InSight into Mars' interior
April 30, 2018
What happens to your body when you die in space?
January 20, 2017
The Man Who Fixed Hubble
October 10, 2016
As Rosetta Spacecraft Crash-Lands Successfully, A Bittersweet Celebration
September 30, 2016
Success! NASA's Juno Spacecraft Made It To Jupiter
July 5, 2016
Tensions Mount As Juno Spacecraft Draws Nearer To Jupiter
July 5, 2016
Greetings From Mission Control At NASA JPL
July 4, 2016
How Juno Broke The Distance Record For Solar-Powered Spacecraft
July 1, 2016
How The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Will Get Into Orbit Around Jupiter
June 29, 2016
This Is Where The International Space Station Will Go To Die
June 13, 2016
A Tour Of The Space Shuttle Enterprise, With A Shuttle Astronaut
June 6, 2016
We Took A Virtual Walk On The Martian Surface
May 23, 2016
Beyond Pluto: Meet The New Horizons Spacecraft's Next Target
May 19, 2016
Our Solar System Has A Ninth Planet
February 23, 2016
The Search For The Real Planet X
(Featured in print) January 20, 2016
A Drill To Tunnel Miles Below The Surface Of Mars
December 3, 2015
The Real Cost Of NASA Missions
November 4, 2015
Interview With A Sarcastic Mars Rover
October 28, 2015
CubeSats Are Paving Mankind's Way Back To The Moon, And Beyond
October 8, 2015
Q&A With ‘The Pluto Doctor
July 10, 2015
NASA Is Sending Some Lucky Yeast Into Radiation-Filled Deep Space
May 15, 2015
What's Next For The Dawn Mission?
March 23, 2015
Oh 'SMAP'! New NASA Satellite Will Help Predict Drought, Climate Change
January 15, 2015
The Keeper Of The Maps Of Mars
December 16, 2014
NASA's Ames Opens Its Doors To The Public Tomorrow
October 17, 2014
Top 5 Star Gazing Apps For International Astronomy Day
October 4, 2014
What My Mother Learned from Einstein ( In Print)
September 3, 2014
Medium-One Zero
What Happens to Religion When We Find Aliens?
October 30, 2018
The ‘Escape to Mars’ Plan Has a Fatal Flaw
November 13, 2018
Why ‘Contact’ Is the Most Important Space Movie Ever Made
November 27, 2018
The Long Goodbye
December 12, 2018
The Next Blockbuster Drug Might Be Made in Space
January 2, 2019
Meet the Alien Whisperer
January 23, 2019
The Woman Who Sees Space First
February 6, 2019
It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Our Beloved Mars Rover
February 12, 2019
The Case for Visiting the Outer Planets
March 7, 2019
A Year in Space Changed an Astronaut’s Genes
April 11, 2019
NASA’s Marsquake Recording Joins the Soundtrack of the Cosmos
May 1, 2019
The Largest Unnamed Object in the Solar System Is Getting a Formal Title
May 16, 2019
The Challenges of Having Children in Space
June 24, 2019
There Is Water on the Moon. This Is How We’ll Get It.
July 16, 2019
The New Republic
Our Next World War Might Be Fought in Outer Space
(In Print) May 24, 2017
Where No Miner Has Gone Before
(In Print) August 23, 2016
Smithsonian
How the Next Generation of Mars Rovers will Search for Signs of Life
September 2, 2016
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