THE ONCE AND FUTURE NIGHT has been burbling since I was 5, watching a meteor shower; since I worked on Hubble; since I began covering the fabric of spacetime and the texture of awe; since the first Starlink satellites. It's the distilled star-core of all I've learned, loved, and fear losing. 2/

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It's reveal day for the gorgeous cover of my upcoming book THE ONCE AND FUTURE NIGHT: How We Loved and Lost the Stars. Imagine the threeway lovechild of Cosmos, Arctic Dreams, and Silent Spring. Out April 27, and you can preorder now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753934... 1/

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unfortunate trend where I write about something concerning and then a bunch of red state AGs start weaponized lawsuits over the thing

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Here's Northern Arizona University graduate student Andrew Haverdink drilling out permafrost cores in the northern backcountry of Alaska’s Denali National Park.

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Gil was a constant tinkerer and an energy democrat who believed in simplicity and accessibility of design. His campus lab was a haven of experimentation where getting the right answer was less important than learning by trying. He had a sharp sense of humor and absolutely no interest in status.

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