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 ...

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 ...

You may not need this if you recall why 2000 was a leap year 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

‘ 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 Bloggies are coming! This is the Oscar, if you will, of blogs. You can vote for your favorite blogs, with topics like politics, crafts, tech, etc. But dagnappit, there's no science category. There ...

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 ...