Rebecca is a journalist covering the cosmos, with a focus on astronomy, space exploration, and history.
How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award
National Bestseller
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth, from the primordial soup to the Artemis launches.
“With a remarkable command of planetary science and human history, Boyle provides a sweeping, lyrical new account of our cosmic neighbor, brilliantly reframing our relationship to a moon that intimately shaped, and continues to shape, the course of life on Earth.”
— Peter Brannen, author of The Ends of the World
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FEATURED ARTICLES
Scientific American
Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy
Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it.
New York Times
50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon
The lunar rovers of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 parked American automotive culture on the lunar surface, and expanded the scientific range of the missions’ astronaut explorers.
The Atlantic
The Dark Side of Light
Beneath the surface of one of Germany’s deepest lakes, researchers are studying the hidden effects of artificial light.
Quanta
Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds
Reports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have been exaggerated. But astronomers still have much to learn from distant galaxies glimpsed by Webb.
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