Author: Mark Zastrow

Mark Zastrow is Editor-in-Chief of Astronomy magazine. He holds masters degrees in astronomy and science journalism and has over a decade of experience covering science in the U.S. and in Asia. In graduate school, he studied exoplanets, M dwarfs, and the water ice plume of Enceladus. Before joining Astronomy, he was a freelance reporter in Seoul for five years, covering topics including the rise of AI and the AlphaGo match, South Korea’s quest to win a science Nobel Prize, research misconduct, and two coronavirus outbreaks.