Jeff Nagle

Jeff Nagle is a science journalist mainly writing about outer space. He was trained as a historian of science, technology, and the environment, writing about the relationship between visions of high technology, climate crisis, and urban renewal in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, and worked on several oral history projects, including a history of Superfund in Southwest Philadelphia’s Eastwick neighborhood. From 2021 to 2022, he reigned as the pizza-eating champion of Marion County, Ohio.

You can follow him on Twitter at @frimairist.

Space

Older Stars May Have a Critical Condition That Makes Their Planets Better for Life

Newer generations of stars may have a quirk in the kind of ultraviolet radiation produced.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

New Measurements of the Big Bang's Afterglow Prove Einstein Right Again

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope confirmed his theory of gravity again.

By Jeff Nagle
Space Science

Astronomers Confirm the Earliest Galaxy Yet Discovered

Using the Webb Telescope and other facilities, astronomers found a galaxy just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

Astronomers Just Found a Half-Million Light Year Long Stream in the Early Universe

The enormous structure is made of cold carbon.

By Jeff Nagle
Space Science

Alien Fossils Could Be Hiding in Meteorites on Earth — Study

The new study suggests looking at the bottom of the ocean or elsewhere for traces of microbial life.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

Meet the NASA Scientists Who Decide Which Asteroid You Need to Worry About

Two potentially hazardous asteroids have come and gone lately. What gives?

By Jeff Nagle
Space Science

New Study Shows Venus Likely Didn't Have Ancient Oceans for Long

This could rethink our view of the world as once-habitable.

By Jeff Nagle
Space Science

NASA's Asteroid Crash Mission Was a Smashing Success for Planetary Defense

By understanding how asteroids function, we can know more about how to knock them off course.

By Jeff Nagle
Space Science

The Milky Way's Black Hole is About to Eat 278 Trillion Mile Gas Cloud

It could give us a front-row seat to elusive black hole behavior.

By Jeff Nagle
Space Science

Neuroscientists Turn to an Unexpected Source to Study How Brains Behave in Space

It's not astronauts.

By Jeff Nagle
Space

Scientists Proposed a Massive Moon Dust Shield to Combat Climate Change. Could It Really Work?

The best place to start looking at cooling the Earth might not be on the Moon.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

Snow Moon 2023: You Need to See February's Bright Full Moon This Weekend

The Snow Moon will light up the sky just as a green comet exits stage left.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

Scientists find two key ingredients for life in ancient meteors

Potassium and zinc were brought to Earth from distant space rocks.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

Supermassive black holes may be bigger and more powerful than we previously knew

A new study sheds light on the darkness of black holes at the center of galaxies.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

Astronomers find a group of zombie stars 20 times hotter than the Sun

The white dwarf stars are nearing the end of their life — and going out in a blaze of glory.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

Ice geysers could spew alien microbes into space from Enceladus

Astrobiologists may be able to find life on one of Saturn's tiny moons from space.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

Full Moon calendar 2023: When to see our nearest celestial neighbor

There are 13 Full Moons in 2023, so here's when to find the Blue Moon of the year.

By Jeff Nagle
Innovation

How Cold War secrecy helped fuel the latest fusion energy breakthrough

The NIF is a relic of Cold War nuclear tests and paranoia.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

Astronomers trace powerful gamma rays to a never-before-seen stellar phenomenon

The kilonova explosion may have been the result of a white dwarf-neutron star merger.

By Jeff Nagle
Science

Astronomers capture a rare black hole phenomena billions of light years away

The tidal disruption event ripped apart the star so a black hole could feast.

By Jeff Nagle