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Tag Archives: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Featured Articles, Science News for Students

My feature profiling scientists on the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto and is now preparing to go past another Kuiper Belt object

Link March 4, 2017 Ron Cowen

My feature profiling scientists on the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto and is now preparing to go past another Kuiper Belt object

Alice BowmanastronomyCathy OlkinCoralie JackmanJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryMark HoldridgeNASANew HorizonsPlutosciencespace
Featured Articles, Nature

A never-before-told tale: An asteroid with six tails

Link November 8, 2013 Ron Cowen

A never-before-told tale: An asteroid with six tails

Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STSCI)
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STSCI)
asteroidsastronomyHarold WeaverJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryP/2013 P5sciencespace
Featured Articles, Nature

Moons with Underground Oceans: Uranus’ turn? [Nature]

October 20, 2012 Ron Cowen

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has been known to have an underground ocean since 2005, and now astronomers are looking to Ariel, one of Uranus’ moons, as another possible locale with an underground oasis. From my Nature blog post, Could a moon of Uranus harbour an underground ocean?:

NASA/JPL
NASA/JPL

Continue reading Moons with Underground Oceans: Uranus’ turn? [Nature] →

ArielastronomyElizabeth TurtleJet Propulsion LaboratoryJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryJulie Castillo-RogezmoonsNASAspaceUranus

Science Writer

Ron Cowen

Award-winning science writer with a passionate interest in the intersection of popular culture and the physical sciences. Articles include features and news stories on the earliest known recorded sounds, an essay on Hubble Space Telescope photography and evidence suggesting the universe is a hologram.

Dubbed “the scoop machine,” by the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Ron has been published in National Geographic, Nature, The New York Times, Science, Science News, Scientific American, and US News & World Report.

To get in touch with Ron, email him at roncowen [at] msn.com.