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Dr Robin George Andrews
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NEW: 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...
NEW: 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...
NEW: 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: 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: NASA just made a flurry of announcements about its plan to build a Moon base. They also revealed that they will take not just one, but TWO futuristic rovers to the lunar surface.
And last summer, for NatGeo, I got to take them both for a test drive. 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...
NEW: Can we mine asteroids to transform the world economy? The thrillseekers at @astroforge.bsky.social think so—and this year, their do-or-die mission to chase down an asteroid will launch.
Will they triumph?
For PopMech, I visited their HQ to find out. www.popularmechanics.com/space/a70295...
NEW: NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon—and it's not as crazy as it sounds. But how can they build, launch, land and operate one without a grim accident?
For @sciam.bsky.social, I asked leading nuclear experts how NASA might just pull it off. www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
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...
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At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown.
A retro-futuristic space truck and a nimble crustacean on wheels just won a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. And we took them out for a spin.
