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 ...

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 ...

There’s a lot of exciting stuff happening in the next couple of weeks and months with astronomy — here and far. Get your calendar ready to mark down some dates. On February 18, the NASA Perseverance ...

Come join us for Astronomy Day at UMD today. Mercury's back in the evening sky and Jupiter cozies up to the moon. Read more at Astro Bob.

‘ 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a challenging time for families. Schools across the U.S. are struggling to provide a meaningful online experience. The coronavirus pandemic has cut off or restricted many entertainment options ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...