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 ...

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 ...

With such extraordinary potential for our international standing in astronomy, the cost of ESO membership seems like a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of us have a general idea as to why today is Feb. 29 instead of March 1, but until this morning, I, at least, had not been well steeped in the nitty-gritty details (or had forgotten them from ...

Before we had access to stunning photos of our galaxy from ground- and space-based telescopes, visionaries like Étienne Trouvelot’s captured celestial magic through their art Carolyn Russo Plate IV, ...

Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator. His Bad Astronomy Blog has been hosted on Discover Magazine, Slate, and SYFY.com, and is now a newsletter with over 21,000 readers.

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 ...