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 ...

Bad Astronomy: Phil Plait’s space and cosmology blog, now at Slate. Plait worked on the Hubble Space Telescope for a decade, and in astronomy education for some years after that, before launching what ...

Writes Phil Plait, author of the Bad Astronomy blog: When I was a kid, I had a friend whose birthday was on February 29th.

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

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 ...

The university’s Department of Physics and Astronomy does important work to engage with the community and with experts from the department and elsewhere.

Fifth-year Yale astronomy doctoral candidate Emma Louden GRD ’26 co-authored an illustrated children’s story to inspire the next generation of scientists.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. With a full moon as backdrop, the Griffith Observatory will play ...

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 ...

Astronomy outreach by the university has impacted my life in a strongly positive way. About 1971, I believe, even before I began my 38-year career with the Deseret News, my wife Cory and I were ...