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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog flags a photo from the UA’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to note that it may have rained on Mars a long time ago: This fan is on the inside of ...

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 host ...