Lisa Grossman is the astronomy writer for Science News. Previously she was a news editor at New Scientist, where she ran the physical sciences section of the magazine for three years. Before that, she spent three years at New Scientist as a reporter, covering space, physics and astronomy. She has a degree in astronomy from Cornell University and a graduate certificate in science writing from UC Santa Cruz. Lisa was a finalist for the AGU David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism, and received the Institute of Physics/Science and Technology Facilities Council physics writing award and the AAS Solar Physics Division Popular Writing Award. She interned at Science News in 2009-2010.

All Stories by Lisa Grossman

  1. Planetary Science

    Asteroids could have delivered water to the early Earth

    Shooting mineral pellets at a simulated planet suggests an impact wouldn’t have boiled all of an asteroid’s water away.

  2. Planetary Science

    Uranus smells like rotten eggs

    Planetary scientists detected hydrogen sulfide in Uranus’ upper clouds — the same compound that gives rotten eggs their terrible smell.

  3. Astronomy

    Young galaxies are flat, but old ones are more blobby

    A survey of hundreds of star systems precisely links the shape of a galaxy to the ages of its stars.

  4. Astronomy

    NASA’s TESS spacecraft launches to begin its exoplanet search

    After reaching its orbit in about two months, the telescope will start scanning nearby stars telltale dips in light that signal a passing planet.

  5. Planetary Science

    This meteorite’s diamonds hint that it was born in a lost planet

    Bits of metal nestled inside diamonds suggest the space rock could have formed in a Mars-sized protoplanet in the early solar system.

  6. Astronomy

    Delayed launch of NASA’s next exoplanet hunter is now set for tonight

    NASA’s next exoplanet hunter, TESS, launches today to seek planets in 85 percent of the sky.

  7. Space

    Lasers squeezed iron to mimic the conditions of exoplanet cores

    In the first experiment to measure what exoplanets might be like on the inside, scientists hit iron with 176 lasers at once.

  8. Astronomy

    With the launch of TESS, NASA will boost its search for exoplanets

    The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will set the stage for the next chapter of exoplanet exploration.

  9. Astronomy

    Dark matter isn’t interacting with itself after all

    Hints that a distant galactic collision knocked dark matter askew fizzled with new observations.

  10. Astronomy

    A dozen new black holes found in Milky Way’s center

    Twelve small black holes spotted in the Milky Way’s center suggest thousands more in the galaxy’s inner region.

  11. Astronomy

    A Chinese space station will fall to Earth this weekend

    The Chinese space agency’s first space station is coming back to Earth this weekend. It probably won’t cause damage, but it will cause fireworks.

  12. Planetary Science

    Water may have killed Mars’ magnetic field

    Extra hydrogen near the Red Planet’s iron core could have shut down convection.