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Author: John Wenz

John comes to us from Popular Mechanics, where he was a news writer for their website. He also has been a freelance journalist for more than a decade, including stories on the websites of Wired, The Atlantic, The Verge, Mental Floss, The Awl, and more. He has a life-long interest in planetary science, space exploration, and SETI. He has a bachelor of arts in English with a writing emphasis from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. When not at work, he enjoys hiking, reading comic books, spending time with his fiance Lisa, or playing with his dog, Fermi, or cats, Slimer and Tiger Friend.
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40 years later, these Voyager instruments still talk to NASA

Exoplanets, Planets

How the first exoplanets were discovered

Exoplanets, Planets, Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

Mission complete for Opportunity rover

Exotic Objects

‘It’s a haunting thing’: Space artists on the first black hole image

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System

Planetary tours: The backpacker’s guide to the solar system

Science, Solar System

Titan’s slot canyons of ice rival those of Zion National park

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Israeli Moon lander to touch down near Apollo landing sites next month

Galaxies

How galaxies interact

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

NASA’s Opportunity rover is dead. We asked NASA scientists to write eulogies for the robot

Exoplanets, Science

The complicated history of planets around Barnard’s star

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