Popular Writing
Satellite Imaging, Not Tourism, is the Modern Space Race
- Wall Street Journal
July 14, 2022
Book Review: Vindicating Einstein
- Wall Street Journal
May 25, 2019
Look, Up in the Sky — a Black Hole!
- Wall Street Journal
April 10, 2019
When Worlds Collide, Astronomers Watch
- Wall Street Journal
October 16, 2017
The Ansel Adams of Outer Space
- Wall Street Journal
September 15, 2017
I Watched a Total Eclipse of the Sun. You Don't Want to Miss the Next One.
- Washington Post
June 21, 2017
Venus Shines in the Shadow of Mars
- Wall Street Journal
June 12, 2017
Earth Isn't as Special as Astronomers (and Other Earthlings) Think
- Wall Street Journal
April 22, 2017
Gazing into the Abyss
- The Atlantic
March 29, 2017
Give It Up for Pluto
- New York Times
December 13, 2015
Nobel Winners Bet Big on a Little Particle
- Wall Street Journal
October 15, 2015
The Communist Spy (Maybe) Behind This Year's Nobel Prize in Physics
- The Atlantic
October 7, 2015
Standing the Test of Time (and Space)
- The Atlantic
October 2, 2015
Our Cosmic Selves
- New York Times
April 5, 2015
Ice Fishing With Physicists
- Muse
February 2014
Coming Soon: A Supernova Near You
- Scientific American
December 2013
Listen Up, It's Neutrino Time
- New York Times
December 14, 2013
Yes, But What Are Neutrinos For?
- Boston Globe
December 1, 2013
Is Life on Earth Unique?
- Physics World
October 2013
The Meteorite Hunters
- Muse
December 2011
Gravity: Atoms in Free Fall
- Babbage, The Economist
July 6, 2011
Alien Life, Coming Slowly Into View
- New York Times
March 27, 20111
To Mars or Not?
- Muse
January-February 2011
How the Milky Way Devours its Neighbors
- Astronomy
March 2008
Does Antimatter Matter?
- Astronomy
December 2006
The Mystery of Brown Dwarf Origins (with Subhanjoy Mohanty)
- Scientific American
January 2006
In Search of the First Stars
- Astronomy
December 2005
Chasing the Shadow of Venus
- Astronomy
June 2004
Planets in Production: Making New Worlds
- Sky & Telescope
April 2003
The Age of Behemoths
- Sky & Telescope
February 2002
Our Galaxy’s Nearest Neighbor
- Sky & Telescope
May 1998