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 ...

The 2010’s were an important decade for astronomy, NASA and the private industry. During this past decade, we discovered Pluto for the first time, the Space Shuttle launched for the final time and the ...

I have a rather big announcement to make: the Bad Astronomy Blog is moving to Slate magazine on November 12! I’ve been writing at Discover Magazine for over four years, and it’s been a great ride.

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 ...

Today was a big day for SpaceX and their test of the Dragon Launch escape system. This is built to keep our astronauts safe if and when a rocket fails. In today’s test, the Falcon 9 rocket ...

Stuart at Astronomy Blog has posted an interactive timeline of astronomy blogs, showing when they went online. I thought mine was one of the early ones, but now I see things were already ramping up ...

‘ Don’t ever let anyone tell you shameless self-shilling doesn’t work. The Bad Astronomy Blog is a finalist for a 2006 Weblog Award, aka a Bloggie (sorta the Oscar for blogs). This is no doubt in no ...

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 ...

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 ...

Having the right tools is exceedingly important in astronomy, so College of Charleston professor Chris Fragile was initially dejected when none of the bars he approached about a proposed lecture ...