Published Articles 1975-2024
"Space Oddities" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 20 March 2024
"Einstein in Time and Space" and "The Einsteinian Revolution" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 13 January 2024
"A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman" [Book Review], Washington Post, 31 July 2022
"First Light" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 5 March 2021
"Fundamentals" [Book Review], Washington Post, 10 January 2021
"What Stars Are Made Of" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 28 March 2020
"Zwicky" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 14 September 2019
"Dante and the Early Astronomer" [Book Review], Washington Post, 26 May 2019
"The Black Hole at the Edge of Forever," Cognoscenti, 12 April 2019
"Einstein's Monsters" [Book Review], Undark, November 2018
"Chasing New Horizons" and "Discovering Pluto" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 12 May 2018
"The Earth Gazers" [Book Review], Washington Post, 11 February 2018
"Endurance" [Book Review], Washington Post, 5 November 2017
"In Good Company," Natural History, October 2017
"Like This World of Ours," Natural History, May 2017
"Convergence" [Book Review], Washington Post, 12 March 2017
"How to Weigh the World," Nautilus, 6 March 2017
"The Cheshire Cat," Natural History, November 2016
"Einstein's Symphony," Natural History, April 2016
"Listening for Gravity Waves," Science News, 5 March 2016
"The Cosmic Poltergeist," Natural History, February 2016
"Nor Any Drop to Drink," Natural History, October 2015
"The Only Woman in the Room" [Book Review], Washington Post, 27 September 2015
"The Upright Thinkers" [Book Review], Washington Post, 5 July 2015
"Rings, Rings, Rings," Natural History, June 2015
"Mass Meeting," Natural History, March 2015
"To Explain the World" [Book Review], Washington Post, 15 February 2015
"Wild Rays," Natural History, November 2014.
"The Big Burp," Natural History, July/August 2014
"Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space" [Book Review], Washington Post, 8 June 2014
"Celestial Lockup," Natural History, May 2014.
"The Sound Book" and "I Can Hear You Whisper" [Book Reviews], Washington Post, 20 April 2014
"Comet Tale," Natural History, March 2014
"Dark Matters," Natural History, December 2013/January 2014
"Shores of Knowledge [Book Review]," Washington Post, 15 December 2013
"The Great Escape," Natural History, July/August 2013
"Mapping Main Street," Natural History, May 2013
"Brilliant Blunders [Book Review]," Washington Post, 6 June 2013
"Radio Stars," Natural History, March 2013
"How the Electrical Age Transformed America [Book Review]," Washington Post, 3 March 2013
"The Solar System Police," Natural History, December 2012/January 2013
"Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us [Book Review]," Washington Post, 21 December 2012
"Star Noise," Natural History, July/August 2012
"Chasing Galaxies," Natural History, April 2012
"Curiouser and Curiouser," Natural History, February 2012
"The Earthly Passions of a Pop Icon Physicist [Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind]," Washington Post Book World, 22 January 2012
"Chemistry Lesson," Natural History, November 2011
"Scientists Aglow in the Light of Discovery [Radioactive]," Washington Post Book World, 13 November 2011
"Ye Olde Black Hole," Natural History, September 2011
"Quantum Physics for Poets [Book Review]," American Journal of Physics, August 2011
"Catching the Wave," Natural History, June 2011
"Setting Sail for the Final Frontier [Voyager]," Washington Post, 1 August 2010
"Man Is Not Such a Big Chicken," Natural History, March 2010
"Black Hole Created in Lab," Discover, January/February 2010
"Starry-Eyed Entrepreneur," Natural History, December 2009/January 2010
"Before the Big Bang," Technology Review, September/October 2009
"Finding a Cosmic Yardstick," Natural History, September 2009
"The Cosmologist Left Behind," Sky & Telescope, September 2009
"You're Not The Center of the Universe, You Know," Washington Post, 19 July 2009
"The Day We Found the Universe: January 1, 1925," Natural History, June 2009
“Gravity’s Shadow [Einstein’s Telescope],” Washington Post, 22 February 2009
“Meeting the Multiverse,” Harvard Magazine, November/December 2005
"Cosmos Girl [The Planets]," New York Times Book Review, 13 November 2005
“Margaret Burbidge,” Smithsonian, November 2005
“How the Universe Has Surprised Us,” Astronomy, September 2005
“Chain Reaction [Before the Fallout],” Washington Post Book World, 31 July 2005
“Beyond the Big Bang: Einstein’s Evolving Universe,” National Geographic, May 2005
“The Amazing Lives of Two Stars,” Astronomy, November 2004
“Inquiring Minds [The Scientists],” Washington Post Book World, 11 January 2004
“Great Balls of Fire,” Astronomy, November 2003
“The Turbulent World of Compact Galaxy Groups,” Astronomy, April 2003
“The Fly Who Came in from the Cold [Winter World],” The New York Times Book Review, 26 January 2003
“Sky High [Seeing in the Dark],” Washington Post Book World, 22 September 2002
“Fahrenheit 451,000 [A Matter of Degrees],” The New York Times Books Review, 4 August 2002
“Going the Distance,” Explore the Universe 2002
“Pas de Deux,” Mercury, September/October 2001
“Historia Borealis [The Northern Lights],” Washington Post, 26 September 2001
“The Color of Money [Mauve],” The New York Times Book Review, 15 April 2001
“Predicting the Past,” Astronomy, February 2001
“Evidence of Things Not Seen [Boltzmann's Atom],” Washington Post Book World, 28 January 2001
“Astronomy Careers Beckon,” Astronomy, November 2000
“Catch a Gravity Wave,” Astronomy, October 2000
“Quirks and Quarks [Strange Beauty],” Washington Post Book World , 13 February 2000
“Underground Astronomer,” Astronomy, January 2000
“One Man's Universe [Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos],” Washington Post Book World, 31 October 1999
“Writing and Reading at the Speed of Modern Life [Faster],” The Boston Globe, 12 September 1999
“Please Don't Eat the Doctor [Appointment at the Ends of the World],” New York Times Book Review, 1 August 1999
“With Strings Attached [The Elegant Universe],” Washington Post Book World, 7 March 1999
"Scientific Research and the Burden of Proof [The Baltimore Case]," Washington Post Book World, 15 Nov 1998
"Outsmarting the Early Universe,” Astronomy, October 1998
"A Beast in the Core, Astronomy, July 1998
“Genius and Darkness [The Man Who Loved Only Numbers and A Beautiful Mind],” The Boston Globe, 5 July 1998
“X Rays Expose a Violent Sky,” Smithsonian, July 1998
"Cosmic Jekyll & Hyde," Astronomy, May 1998
“Heads Up! [Comets]” The New York Times Book Review, 24 May 1998
“Gravity's Rainbow,” Astronomy, August 1997
“Material World [Stuff],” The New York Times Book Review, 17 August 1997
“It's the Thought That Counts [Albert Einstein: A Biography],” Washington Post Book World, 30 March 1997
“Giving Birth to Galaxies,” Discover, February 1997
“What Makes Galaxies Change?” Astronomy, January 1997
“The Mechanics of the Soul [How Brains Think],” The New York Times Book Review, 17 November 1996
“The New Dark Age of Astronomy,” Astronomy, October 1996
“Physician With a Mission [A Desperate Passion],” Washington Post Book World, 1 September 1996
“Physical Attraction [Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets],” The New York Times Book Review, 21 April 1996
"The Woman Behind the Bomb [Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics]," Washington Post, 17 March 1996
“The Remarkable Odyssey of Jane Luu,” Astronomy, February 1996
“Head in the Stars [Hubble Vision],” The New York Times Book Review, 10 December 1995
“When the Universe Began, What Time Was It?” Technology Review, November/December 1995
“The Ultimate Weapon [Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb],” Washington Post Book World, 6 August 1995
“At the Birth of Modern Physics [Marie Curie: A Life],” Washington Post Book World, 9 March 1995
“Go Up, Young Man [The Millennial Project],” Washington Post Book World, 8 January 1995
“The Search for Black Holes,” Science Year 1995, World Book Encyclopedia
“Field Guide to the Universe [Black Holes and Time Warps],” Washington Post Book World, 19 June 1994
“Through the Media, Darkly,” Sky & Telescope, May 1994
“Sounds of the Sun,” American Scientist, January/February 1994
“To Catch a Ghost,” Mercury, November/December 1993
“The Stuff of Stars,” The Sciences, September/October 1993
“TPX — the next machine,” Princeton Weekly Bulletin, 20 September 1993
“Gravity Wave Sky,” Discover, July 1993
“So Many Galaxies...So Little Time,” Air & Space, June/July 1993
“Loops of Space,” Discover, April 1993
“Not in Ourselves but in Our Stars [Conversing With the Planets],” The New York Times Book Review, 13 December 1992
“Dark Matter...Not?” Discover, December 1992
“Doubtful Elements,” Discover, August 1992
"Turning a Keen Eye on the Stars," Science, 17 April 1992
“What's the Grand Design [The Mind of God],” New York Times Book Review, 23 February 1992
“Into the Darkness,” Boston Museum of Science Magazine, February/March 1992
“The Texture of the Universe,” Discover, November 1991
“Our Cousin the Sea Squirt [The Virgin and the Mousetrap],” The New York Times Book Review, 18 August 1991
“The Hunt for Brown Dwarfs,” Discover, April 1991
“The Big Bang — Mostly Smoke? [The Shadows of Creation],” The New York Times Book Review, 31 March 1991
“The Woman Who Spins the Stars,” Discover, October 1990
“Mapping The Universe,” Discover, August 1990
“Next Stop For Mankind [Mars Beckons],” The New York Times Book Review, 15 July 1990
“Seeing Into The Sun,” Mosaic, Spring 1990
“How To Encourage New Heresies [Discovering],” New York Times Book Review, 28 January 1990
“The Sunspot Syndrome,” Discover, November 1989
“Einstein's Unfinished Symphony,” Discover, August 1989
“The Joy of Falling [An Old Man's Toy],” The New York Times Book Review, 30 July 1989
“Where No One Has Gone Before,” Science Impact Letter, January 1989
“Energizing the Climate Cycles,” Mosaic, Fall/Winter 1988
"A Curious Cosmic Beam," Science Impact Letter, December 1988
“Wanted: Dark Matter,” Discover, December 1988
“Cosmic Origins: Galaxies Far, Far Away,” Science Impact Letter, November 1988
“Coming Home,” Discover, September 1988
“How We Got Lost in the Stars [Coming of Age in the Milky Way],” The New York Times Book Review, 17 July 1988
“Superstars,” Discover, May 1988
“What Place for a Creator? [A Brief History of Time],” The New York Times Book Review, 3 April 1988
“If You Like Black Holes, You'll Love Cosmic Strings,” Discover, April 1988
“The Supernova—One Year Later,” Science Impact Letter, March 1988
“The Short Life and Violent Death of Sanduleak -69,” Discover, January 1988
"Long Day's Journey," Omni, December 1987
“Move Over, Black Holes; Here Come Those Curious Cosmic Strings,” Science Impact Letter, December 1987
“The High-Energy Universe,” Mosaic, Fall 1987
“Farsighted Astronomers,” Air & Space, August/September 1987
“Who Ordered the Muon? [The Hunting of the Quark],” The New York Times Book Review, 27 September 1987
“Before The Big Bang: The Big Foam,” Discover, September 1987
“Mighty Blast Begins New Era of Astronomy,” Science Impact Letter, July 1987
“Cracks in Space-Time: A Cosmic String?” Science Impact Letter, July 1987
“Heavenly Drifters,” Omni, May 1987
“The Cosmic Burp: The Genesis of the Inflationary Universe Hypothesis,” Mercury, March/April 1987
“Mark of the Quark,” Omni, November 1986
“Cosmic Cornerstone [Was Einstein Right?],” New York Times Book Review, 5 October 1986
“Megascope,” Omni, July 1986
“Ultimate Catalog,” Omni, February 1986
“The Bubbling Universe,” Science Digest, February 1986
“How Will It End?” Science Digest, October 1985
“Three Hundred Miles Up: Hubble Space Telescope,” Science Digest, June 1985
“Sensing the Ripples in Space-Time,” Science 85, April 1985
"The Universe, By and Large," Mosaic, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1984
“The Canterbury Swarm,” Omni, November 1984
“Very Large Astronomy,” Science 84, July/August 1984
“The Inconstant Constant,” Omni, June 1984
“The Young Meteorites: Origin Unknown,” Science 84, June 1984
“Mapping the Seafloor from Space,” Popular Science, February 1984
“The Planet Hunters,” Science Digest, January 1984
“Missing: 97% Of The Universe,” Science Digest, December 1983
“The Dust of Creation,” Science Digest, November 1983
“Telescopes As Right As Can Be,” Mosaic, September/October 1983
“The Cosmic Burp,” Omni, June 1983
“Optical Interferometry,” Mosaic, March/April 1983
“Living In Rock And Lichen It,” Science 83, April 1983
“Satellites Watch Over The World,” Science Digest, March 1983
“Solar Seekers,” Omni, March 1983
"Playing Dice with the Universe," Omni, 1983.
“Celestial Zoo,” Omni, December 1982
“Probing The Light Fantastic,” Science Digest, November 1982
“Cosmic Test Tubes,” Omni, September 1982
“Colliding Continents,” Omni, September 1982
“6,500 Mile Wide Telescope,” Science Digest, June 1982
"Psychiatrist of America," Discover, April 1982
“Meteorites From Mars?” Discover, October 1981
“Designing Drugs With Computers,” Discover, August 1981
"The First Stargazers," Discover, August 1981
“Signposts In The Sky,” Discover, July 1981
“The Ultimate Timepiece,” Discover, May 1981
"The Comet is Coming," Discover, April 1981
“Architects In The Laboratory,” Discover, April 1981
“Maps of Magnetism,” Discover, March 1981
“Did Genesis Begin In Space?” Discover, February 1981
“Future Shock,” Discover, January 1981
“Secrets of the Glaciers,” Discover, January 1981
“Beeper Man,” Discover, November 1980
“Lessons From The Mountain,” Discover, October 1980
“Proton-induced Coloring Of Multicomponent Glasses,” Applied Optics, 1 October 1979 (Scientific Paper)
“Experimental Relativity: Its Day In The Sun,” Science News, 25 August 1979
“Will the Real Nessie Please Stand Up?” Science News, 18 August 1979
“Cosmic Blackbody: Adding Another Twist,” Science News, 7 July 1979
“Is The Sun Shrinking? Two Views,” Science News, 30 June 1979
"Calculatoritis," Science News, 18 November 1978
“ODU Has Role in Space Program,” Virginian-Pilot, 15 August 1976
“Tidewater Has a Role in Search for Life on Mars,” Virginian-Pilot, 22 June 1975
"Einstein in Time and Space" and "The Einsteinian Revolution" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 13 January 2024
"A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman" [Book Review], Washington Post, 31 July 2022
"First Light" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 5 March 2021
"Fundamentals" [Book Review], Washington Post, 10 January 2021
"What Stars Are Made Of" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 28 March 2020
"Zwicky" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 14 September 2019
"Dante and the Early Astronomer" [Book Review], Washington Post, 26 May 2019
"The Black Hole at the Edge of Forever," Cognoscenti, 12 April 2019
"Einstein's Monsters" [Book Review], Undark, November 2018
"Chasing New Horizons" and "Discovering Pluto" [Book Review], Wall Street Journal, 12 May 2018
"The Earth Gazers" [Book Review], Washington Post, 11 February 2018
"Endurance" [Book Review], Washington Post, 5 November 2017
"In Good Company," Natural History, October 2017
"Like This World of Ours," Natural History, May 2017
"Convergence" [Book Review], Washington Post, 12 March 2017
"How to Weigh the World," Nautilus, 6 March 2017
"The Cheshire Cat," Natural History, November 2016
"Einstein's Symphony," Natural History, April 2016
"Listening for Gravity Waves," Science News, 5 March 2016
"The Cosmic Poltergeist," Natural History, February 2016
"Nor Any Drop to Drink," Natural History, October 2015
"The Only Woman in the Room" [Book Review], Washington Post, 27 September 2015
"The Upright Thinkers" [Book Review], Washington Post, 5 July 2015
"Rings, Rings, Rings," Natural History, June 2015
"Mass Meeting," Natural History, March 2015
"To Explain the World" [Book Review], Washington Post, 15 February 2015
"Wild Rays," Natural History, November 2014.
"The Big Burp," Natural History, July/August 2014
"Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space" [Book Review], Washington Post, 8 June 2014
"Celestial Lockup," Natural History, May 2014.
"The Sound Book" and "I Can Hear You Whisper" [Book Reviews], Washington Post, 20 April 2014
"Comet Tale," Natural History, March 2014
"Dark Matters," Natural History, December 2013/January 2014
"Shores of Knowledge [Book Review]," Washington Post, 15 December 2013
"The Great Escape," Natural History, July/August 2013
"Mapping Main Street," Natural History, May 2013
"Brilliant Blunders [Book Review]," Washington Post, 6 June 2013
"Radio Stars," Natural History, March 2013
"How the Electrical Age Transformed America [Book Review]," Washington Post, 3 March 2013
"The Solar System Police," Natural History, December 2012/January 2013
"Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us [Book Review]," Washington Post, 21 December 2012
"Star Noise," Natural History, July/August 2012
"Chasing Galaxies," Natural History, April 2012
"Curiouser and Curiouser," Natural History, February 2012
"The Earthly Passions of a Pop Icon Physicist [Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind]," Washington Post Book World, 22 January 2012
"Chemistry Lesson," Natural History, November 2011
"Scientists Aglow in the Light of Discovery [Radioactive]," Washington Post Book World, 13 November 2011
"Ye Olde Black Hole," Natural History, September 2011
"Quantum Physics for Poets [Book Review]," American Journal of Physics, August 2011
"Catching the Wave," Natural History, June 2011
"Setting Sail for the Final Frontier [Voyager]," Washington Post, 1 August 2010
"Man Is Not Such a Big Chicken," Natural History, March 2010
"Black Hole Created in Lab," Discover, January/February 2010
"Starry-Eyed Entrepreneur," Natural History, December 2009/January 2010
"Before the Big Bang," Technology Review, September/October 2009
"Finding a Cosmic Yardstick," Natural History, September 2009
"The Cosmologist Left Behind," Sky & Telescope, September 2009
"You're Not The Center of the Universe, You Know," Washington Post, 19 July 2009
"The Day We Found the Universe: January 1, 1925," Natural History, June 2009
“Gravity’s Shadow [Einstein’s Telescope],” Washington Post, 22 February 2009
“Meeting the Multiverse,” Harvard Magazine, November/December 2005
"Cosmos Girl [The Planets]," New York Times Book Review, 13 November 2005
“Margaret Burbidge,” Smithsonian, November 2005
“How the Universe Has Surprised Us,” Astronomy, September 2005
“Chain Reaction [Before the Fallout],” Washington Post Book World, 31 July 2005
“Beyond the Big Bang: Einstein’s Evolving Universe,” National Geographic, May 2005
“The Amazing Lives of Two Stars,” Astronomy, November 2004
“Inquiring Minds [The Scientists],” Washington Post Book World, 11 January 2004
“Great Balls of Fire,” Astronomy, November 2003
“The Turbulent World of Compact Galaxy Groups,” Astronomy, April 2003
“The Fly Who Came in from the Cold [Winter World],” The New York Times Book Review, 26 January 2003
“Sky High [Seeing in the Dark],” Washington Post Book World, 22 September 2002
“Fahrenheit 451,000 [A Matter of Degrees],” The New York Times Books Review, 4 August 2002
“Going the Distance,” Explore the Universe 2002
“Pas de Deux,” Mercury, September/October 2001
“Historia Borealis [The Northern Lights],” Washington Post, 26 September 2001
“The Color of Money [Mauve],” The New York Times Book Review, 15 April 2001
“Predicting the Past,” Astronomy, February 2001
“Evidence of Things Not Seen [Boltzmann's Atom],” Washington Post Book World, 28 January 2001
“Astronomy Careers Beckon,” Astronomy, November 2000
“Catch a Gravity Wave,” Astronomy, October 2000
“Quirks and Quarks [Strange Beauty],” Washington Post Book World , 13 February 2000
“Underground Astronomer,” Astronomy, January 2000
“One Man's Universe [Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos],” Washington Post Book World, 31 October 1999
“Writing and Reading at the Speed of Modern Life [Faster],” The Boston Globe, 12 September 1999
“Please Don't Eat the Doctor [Appointment at the Ends of the World],” New York Times Book Review, 1 August 1999
“With Strings Attached [The Elegant Universe],” Washington Post Book World, 7 March 1999
"Scientific Research and the Burden of Proof [The Baltimore Case]," Washington Post Book World, 15 Nov 1998
"Outsmarting the Early Universe,” Astronomy, October 1998
"A Beast in the Core, Astronomy, July 1998
“Genius and Darkness [The Man Who Loved Only Numbers and A Beautiful Mind],” The Boston Globe, 5 July 1998
“X Rays Expose a Violent Sky,” Smithsonian, July 1998
"Cosmic Jekyll & Hyde," Astronomy, May 1998
“Heads Up! [Comets]” The New York Times Book Review, 24 May 1998
“Gravity's Rainbow,” Astronomy, August 1997
“Material World [Stuff],” The New York Times Book Review, 17 August 1997
“It's the Thought That Counts [Albert Einstein: A Biography],” Washington Post Book World, 30 March 1997
“Giving Birth to Galaxies,” Discover, February 1997
“What Makes Galaxies Change?” Astronomy, January 1997
“The Mechanics of the Soul [How Brains Think],” The New York Times Book Review, 17 November 1996
“The New Dark Age of Astronomy,” Astronomy, October 1996
“Physician With a Mission [A Desperate Passion],” Washington Post Book World, 1 September 1996
“Physical Attraction [Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets],” The New York Times Book Review, 21 April 1996
"The Woman Behind the Bomb [Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics]," Washington Post, 17 March 1996
“The Remarkable Odyssey of Jane Luu,” Astronomy, February 1996
“Head in the Stars [Hubble Vision],” The New York Times Book Review, 10 December 1995
“When the Universe Began, What Time Was It?” Technology Review, November/December 1995
“The Ultimate Weapon [Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb],” Washington Post Book World, 6 August 1995
“At the Birth of Modern Physics [Marie Curie: A Life],” Washington Post Book World, 9 March 1995
“Go Up, Young Man [The Millennial Project],” Washington Post Book World, 8 January 1995
“The Search for Black Holes,” Science Year 1995, World Book Encyclopedia
“Field Guide to the Universe [Black Holes and Time Warps],” Washington Post Book World, 19 June 1994
“Through the Media, Darkly,” Sky & Telescope, May 1994
“Sounds of the Sun,” American Scientist, January/February 1994
“To Catch a Ghost,” Mercury, November/December 1993
“The Stuff of Stars,” The Sciences, September/October 1993
“TPX — the next machine,” Princeton Weekly Bulletin, 20 September 1993
“Gravity Wave Sky,” Discover, July 1993
“So Many Galaxies...So Little Time,” Air & Space, June/July 1993
“Loops of Space,” Discover, April 1993
“Not in Ourselves but in Our Stars [Conversing With the Planets],” The New York Times Book Review, 13 December 1992
“Dark Matter...Not?” Discover, December 1992
“Doubtful Elements,” Discover, August 1992
"Turning a Keen Eye on the Stars," Science, 17 April 1992
“What's the Grand Design [The Mind of God],” New York Times Book Review, 23 February 1992
“Into the Darkness,” Boston Museum of Science Magazine, February/March 1992
“The Texture of the Universe,” Discover, November 1991
“Our Cousin the Sea Squirt [The Virgin and the Mousetrap],” The New York Times Book Review, 18 August 1991
“The Hunt for Brown Dwarfs,” Discover, April 1991
“The Big Bang — Mostly Smoke? [The Shadows of Creation],” The New York Times Book Review, 31 March 1991
“The Woman Who Spins the Stars,” Discover, October 1990
“Mapping The Universe,” Discover, August 1990
“Next Stop For Mankind [Mars Beckons],” The New York Times Book Review, 15 July 1990
“Seeing Into The Sun,” Mosaic, Spring 1990
“How To Encourage New Heresies [Discovering],” New York Times Book Review, 28 January 1990
“The Sunspot Syndrome,” Discover, November 1989
“Einstein's Unfinished Symphony,” Discover, August 1989
“The Joy of Falling [An Old Man's Toy],” The New York Times Book Review, 30 July 1989
“Where No One Has Gone Before,” Science Impact Letter, January 1989
“Energizing the Climate Cycles,” Mosaic, Fall/Winter 1988
"A Curious Cosmic Beam," Science Impact Letter, December 1988
“Wanted: Dark Matter,” Discover, December 1988
“Cosmic Origins: Galaxies Far, Far Away,” Science Impact Letter, November 1988
“Coming Home,” Discover, September 1988
“How We Got Lost in the Stars [Coming of Age in the Milky Way],” The New York Times Book Review, 17 July 1988
“Superstars,” Discover, May 1988
“What Place for a Creator? [A Brief History of Time],” The New York Times Book Review, 3 April 1988
“If You Like Black Holes, You'll Love Cosmic Strings,” Discover, April 1988
“The Supernova—One Year Later,” Science Impact Letter, March 1988
“The Short Life and Violent Death of Sanduleak -69,” Discover, January 1988
"Long Day's Journey," Omni, December 1987
“Move Over, Black Holes; Here Come Those Curious Cosmic Strings,” Science Impact Letter, December 1987
“The High-Energy Universe,” Mosaic, Fall 1987
“Farsighted Astronomers,” Air & Space, August/September 1987
“Who Ordered the Muon? [The Hunting of the Quark],” The New York Times Book Review, 27 September 1987
“Before The Big Bang: The Big Foam,” Discover, September 1987
“Mighty Blast Begins New Era of Astronomy,” Science Impact Letter, July 1987
“Cracks in Space-Time: A Cosmic String?” Science Impact Letter, July 1987
“Heavenly Drifters,” Omni, May 1987
“The Cosmic Burp: The Genesis of the Inflationary Universe Hypothesis,” Mercury, March/April 1987
“Mark of the Quark,” Omni, November 1986
“Cosmic Cornerstone [Was Einstein Right?],” New York Times Book Review, 5 October 1986
“Megascope,” Omni, July 1986
“Ultimate Catalog,” Omni, February 1986
“The Bubbling Universe,” Science Digest, February 1986
“How Will It End?” Science Digest, October 1985
“Three Hundred Miles Up: Hubble Space Telescope,” Science Digest, June 1985
“Sensing the Ripples in Space-Time,” Science 85, April 1985
"The Universe, By and Large," Mosaic, Volume 15, Issue 2, 1984
“The Canterbury Swarm,” Omni, November 1984
“Very Large Astronomy,” Science 84, July/August 1984
“The Inconstant Constant,” Omni, June 1984
“The Young Meteorites: Origin Unknown,” Science 84, June 1984
“Mapping the Seafloor from Space,” Popular Science, February 1984
“The Planet Hunters,” Science Digest, January 1984
“Missing: 97% Of The Universe,” Science Digest, December 1983
“The Dust of Creation,” Science Digest, November 1983
“Telescopes As Right As Can Be,” Mosaic, September/October 1983
“The Cosmic Burp,” Omni, June 1983
“Optical Interferometry,” Mosaic, March/April 1983
“Living In Rock And Lichen It,” Science 83, April 1983
“Satellites Watch Over The World,” Science Digest, March 1983
“Solar Seekers,” Omni, March 1983
"Playing Dice with the Universe," Omni, 1983.
“Celestial Zoo,” Omni, December 1982
“Probing The Light Fantastic,” Science Digest, November 1982
“Cosmic Test Tubes,” Omni, September 1982
“Colliding Continents,” Omni, September 1982
“6,500 Mile Wide Telescope,” Science Digest, June 1982
"Psychiatrist of America," Discover, April 1982
“Meteorites From Mars?” Discover, October 1981
“Designing Drugs With Computers,” Discover, August 1981
"The First Stargazers," Discover, August 1981
“Signposts In The Sky,” Discover, July 1981
“The Ultimate Timepiece,” Discover, May 1981
"The Comet is Coming," Discover, April 1981
“Architects In The Laboratory,” Discover, April 1981
“Maps of Magnetism,” Discover, March 1981
“Did Genesis Begin In Space?” Discover, February 1981
“Future Shock,” Discover, January 1981
“Secrets of the Glaciers,” Discover, January 1981
“Beeper Man,” Discover, November 1980
“Lessons From The Mountain,” Discover, October 1980
“Proton-induced Coloring Of Multicomponent Glasses,” Applied Optics, 1 October 1979 (Scientific Paper)
“Experimental Relativity: Its Day In The Sun,” Science News, 25 August 1979
“Will the Real Nessie Please Stand Up?” Science News, 18 August 1979
“Cosmic Blackbody: Adding Another Twist,” Science News, 7 July 1979
“Is The Sun Shrinking? Two Views,” Science News, 30 June 1979
"Calculatoritis," Science News, 18 November 1978
“ODU Has Role in Space Program,” Virginian-Pilot, 15 August 1976
“Tidewater Has a Role in Search for Life on Mars,” Virginian-Pilot, 22 June 1975