Bob Grant From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master ...

What galaxy is he in? Maureen Dowd approvingly quotes Senator John McCain’s Twittered mockery of $2-million in federal funding for the promotion of astronomy in Hawaii, because “nothing says new jobs ...

These Depictions of Celestial Wonders Helped Make Astronomy Mainstream Before we had access to stunning photos of our galaxy from ground- and space-based telescopes, visionaries like Étienne Trouvelot ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions. If ...

The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz has more senior women faculty members (five) than any other astronomy department in the country, according to a recent survey by the ...

Opening the newly published children’s book “Mia and the Martians,” readers see a young girl rushing to the edge of the page, proudly outstretching a pink rocket in her hand. The reader learns what ...

I read with concern the excellent article by Jason Swensen concerning funding adjustments that Utah’s colleges and universities are making, following a mandate by the Legislature (“Utah’s colleges on ...

Debra Fischer, Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy and former Dean of Academic Affairs, was tapped as the next director of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences. The ...