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. 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 
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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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