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Author: Elizabeth Gamillo

Elizabeth Gamillo is a former staff writer for Astronomy.com. She was one of the 2018 AAAS Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Interns at Science Magazine before becoming a daily contributor for Smithsonian Magazine. She has also written for Discover magazine and holds a Master's Degree from MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing.
NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless free-floating in space as he tested a device outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA
Human Spaceflight, Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Space Exploration

NASA is taking astronaut applications. Here’s how to apply

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

It’s hard to grow food in space. These sensors can help.

The most distant quasars are roughly 13 billion light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
Exotic Objects

Astronomers map 1.3 million supermassive black holes

Exotic Objects, Uncategorized

The rumblings that led to the ‘alien spheres’ probably came from a truck

A clip from NOIRLab's video shows the remnants of a supernova explosion.
Exotic Objects, Science

NOIRLab releases jaw-dropping images, video of remnants from massive star explosion

ALMA detected water vapor in HL Tauri's disk. Here it’s shown in blue. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Facchini et al
Science, Stars

Astronomers observe oceans of water vapor in a region where planets likely form

JWST's false-color image of the JADES-GS-z7-01-QU galaxy
Galaxies, Stars

Astronomers find the corpse of a galaxy early in the universe

Alien Life, Solar System

NASA’s Juno spacecraft probes Europa’s oxygen levels 

Odysseus on the Moon. The photo shows a piece of a landing gear leg that has broken off. Credit: Intuitive Machines
Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Odysseus traveled to the Moon, broke its leg, and still pinged Earth to tell the story

An artist’s representation of quasar J059-4351
Exotic Objects

This quasar eats one Sun a day for breakfast

An illustration of Exoplanet TOI-715 b
Exoplanets

Recently discovered super-Earth might be habitable — and it could have a sibling

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
Solar System

Water molecules identified on asteroids for the first time

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