News Stories From 2017
Give Thanks for the Winter Solstice — You Might Not Be Here Without It
The New York Times, December 2017
Neutron-star Smashup Might Have Choked Its Own Jet
Sky & Telescope, December 2017
An Early Collision With a Mars-Sized Body Rocked the Earth to Form the Moon
New Scientist, December 2017
Storm Waves With the Power to Heave Massive Boulders Over Cliffs
The New York Times, November 2017
Lightning Leaves Clouds of Radiation and Antimatter in its Wake
New Scientist, November 2017
Ocean-Covered Planets May Not be the Places to Search for Life
New Scientist, November 2017
Dark Matter May be The Source of Antimatter Streaming Past Earth
New Scientist, November 2017
The Cool Beginnings of a Volcano's Supereruption
The New York Times, November 2017
Drones Peer Inside a Volcano
Scientific American, November 2017
Possible Exomoon May be an Ocean-Covered World as Large as Saturn
New Scientist, October 2017
A Surprise From the Supervolcano Under Yellowstone
The New York Times, October 2017
Super-Earths Draw Asteroids to Other Worlds — Seeding Life
New Scientist, September 2017
Debate Heats Up Over the Search for Life on Mars
NBC, September 2017
Nearby Stellar Traffic Twice as Heavy as Previously Thought
Sky & Telescope, September 2017
Experiencing Totality: Eclipse Stories From Sky & Telescope
Sky & Telescope, August 2017
Supernova's Messy Birth Casts Doubt on Reliability of Astronomical Yardstick
Nature News, August 2017
New Sky Survey Shows that Dark Energy May One Day Tear us Apart
New Scientist, August 2017
Biazarro Life-Forms Inhabiting Deep-Sea Vents May Be at Risk
Scientific American, August 2017
Volcanoes May Have Triggered the Last Unexplained Mass Extinction
Scientific American, August 2017
Clues Emerge in Mystery of Flickering Quasars
Nature News, July 2017
Earth's Tectonic Activity May Be Crucial for Life and Rare in Our Galaxy*
Scientific American, July 2017
*This story was honored with the 2018 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism.
Invisibility Cloak Makes Solar Panels Work More Efficiently
New Scientist, July 2017
Kepler Team Releases Final Exoplanet Catalog
Sky & Telescope, June 2017
Cosmic Bruise Could Be Evidence for Multipe Universes
NBC, June 2017
Mini-Flares Might Threaten Life Around Red Dwarf Stars
Sky & Telescope, June 2017
Ravenous Supermassive Black Holes May Sterilize Nearby Planets
Scientific American, May 2017
Rings and Asteroids May Explain 'Alien Megastructure' Star
New Scientist, May 2017
Can we Save the World's Oceans from Garbage?
NBC, May 2017
Tangoing Pairs of Hungry Supermassive Black Holes Grow in Number
New Scientist, May 2017
The Solution to Climate Change Might be Right Under Our Feet
NBC, May 2017
A New Theory May Explain 'Impossible' TRAPPIST-1 Planets
Eos, May 2017
Earth-Sized Telescope May Let Us See a Black Hole for the First Time Ever
NBC, April 2017
Oldest Dust Ever Spotted in the Universe Seen in Distant Galaxy
New Scientist, April 2017
The Coldest Place in the Universe Marks a Double Stellar Grave
New Scientist, March 2017
Scientists Have Some Wild Ideas for Solving Our Big Bee Problem
NBC, March 2017
These Seven Alien Earths May be Swapping Life
National Geographic, March 2017
Why Scientists are So Excited About This Total Solar Eclipse
NBC, March 2017
Found: Hundreds of Thousands of Man-Made Minerals and Another Argument for the Anthropocene
Scientific American, March 2017
Why NASA Wants to Send a 'Turtle' to Titan
NBC, February 2017
Volcanic Eruption May Have Plunged the Maya into a 'Dark Age'
Scientific American, February 2017
Best Evidence Yet for an Intermediate Mass Black Hole
Sky & Telescope, February 2017
What Lies Ahead for Earth's Shifting Continents Might Surprise You
NBC, February 2017
Water Spotted in the Atmosphere of a Nearby Hot Jupiter
New Scientist, February 2017
The Hunt for Alien Megastructures is On
NBC, January 2017
Fast Radio Burst Has a Surprising Source
Sky & Telescope, January 2017
How Art Can Make the Data Pop
Nautilus, January 2017