I'm an award-winning science journalist and author of "Distant Wanderers: the Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System." I primarily cover aerospace and astronomy. A former Hong Kong bureau chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and former Paris-based technology
Mars’ Small Mass Still Puzzles Planetary Scientists
Mars’ strangely small mass still puzzles planetary scientists. Definitive answers as to why are still hard to come by.
How Life Itself Could Extend The Habitability Of Some Venus-Like Exoplanets
Planets on the inner edge of extrasolar habitable zones could be habitable for a couple of billion years longer than previously thought.
Aviation Takeaways From The First Flight Around The World
New book “Into Unknown Skies” details the long and improbable success of the U.S. Army Air Service’s vastly underappreciated first flight around the world.
Astronomers Propose Radical New Way To Look For Signs Of Energy-Hungry Aliens
Why planetary scientists think advanced aliens will turn to nuclear fusion to meet their massive energy needs. Here’s how we might spot them.
Why Extrasolar Gas Giant Planets Are Crucial To The Hunt For Life
Extrasolar gas giant planets are a necessary stop on the road to finding life elsewhere in the cosmos. Here's why we need to understand their atmospheres.
How Satellite Tech Is Helping Tiny Albania Fight European Climate Change
One of Europe’s biodiversity hotspots is now under threat from climate change. How Albania is using state-of-the-art satellite technology to help mitigate the problem.
Why Magnetism Likely Helped Create Order In Our Early Solar System
Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford is investigating how.
Why Mars Could Hold The Keys To Understanding Life Here On Earth
Finding evidence for the first life ever to emerge on planet earth is a long, tough slog. But oddly enough, real answers may ultimately come from Mars.
How Tycho Brahe Forever Changed Astronomy
Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.
AI Has Likely Spread Through Cosmos, Says Former NASA Chief Historian
Hollywood has made a cottage industry out of imagining biological space aliens, but if intelligent life is out there it’s probably in the form of artificial intelligence.