Award-Winning Science Journalist | Volcanology PhD | Stories in NYT, SciAm, NatGeo, MIT Tech Review, Quanta etc | Author: SUPER VOLCANOES 🌋 and HOW TO KILL AN ASTEROID 🚀☄️💥☠️ | (20635) Robinandrews
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NEW: Back in July 2024, an asteroid exploded above New York. None of it was thought to have survived. It turns out that a huge chunk of this space rock smashed through a house in New Jersey—and it contains the chemistry of an alien world. 🤯 Me @ New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/s...
New Jersey Couple Aids Meteorite Discovery After it Crashes Through Their RoofA New Jersey couple helped scientists uncover the makeup of an unusual asteroid after it fell into their bedroom.www.nytimes.com
Hayabusa2 has performed the Torifune flyby, and on July 5 at 18:35 JST, ground control confirmed that the spacecraft is operating normally.
Tomorrow, an L-1011 Stargazer aircraft will take off from the Marshall Islands, 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii. With that, an ambitious quest to save the doomed NASA SWIFT space telescope will begin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
NASA prepares to launch an unprecedented mission to save a dying space telescopeInside the quest to rescue NASA’s aging Swift observatorywww.scientificamerican.comNEW: Yesterday, a rare catastrophe struck Venezuela when a magnitude 7.2 and a magnitude 7.5 quake hit the same region *within less than a minute*. For the @nytimes.com, I asked scientists how this happened, why they were so devastating, and what might happen next. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/s...
Why the Venezuelan Earthquakes Happened, and What to Expect Nextwww.nytimes.comNEW: Earth is drenched in life-giving water. But scientists don't actually know where it all came from. Comets? Asteroids? Now, some (crazy) new experiments offer a tantalising possibility: Earth might have made its own oceans! Me @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/where-did-ea...
Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. | Quanta MagazineAt first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown.www.quantamagazine.orgNEW: Before the first stars were born, there were the Cosmic Dark Ages, a mysterious epoch that whispers in radio waves. And I got a sneaky look at a new plan to hear them—by unfurling an origami telescope in an impact crater on the Moon. 🤯 Me for NatGeo www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
NEW: Sometimes stories are about major scientific breakthroughs, about the origin of life, the end of worlds—dramatic epiphanies about the cosmos. And sometimes a flaming asteroid photobombs an erupting volcano. Me @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/s...
A Fiery Visitor From Space Photo-Bombs an Erupting Volcanowww.nytimes.com