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cosmic relief headerDr. Grinspoon contributes monthly to Sky & Telescope magazine, in a column called Cosmic Relief

To view his articles please select from the year and choose the article title. All articles are displayed as scanned images, at the bottom of each article is an option to view the article as text.

2014

  • 2014      Nov     In the Days of the Comet: A comets close passage to Mars reminds us of our own vulnerability
  • 2014      Feb     So many worlds, but is anybody home?
  • 2014      May    Looking Back in Wonder

2013

  • 2013      Apr     One Galactic Year from Now: Will the Anthropocene be an event, an era, or a transition?
  • 2013      Jun     Cosmic Optimism: Our Galaxy is likely to contain an increasingly large number of advanced civilizations.
  • 2013      Aug     It’s not about Pluto: Exoplanets are Planets Too!
  • 2013      Nov     Search for Intelligent Worlds

2012

  • 2012      Feb      My Apologies to Mercury
  • 2012      Apr      Days of Powder and Planets
  • 2012      Oct      It All Started with Mariner 2
  • 2012      Dec     Life on Saturn’s Moons?

 2011

  • 2011      Jan      Weathering New Worlds
  • 2011      Mar      Arsenic and Old Lakes
  • 2011      Apr      Requiem for Akatsuki
  • 2011      Jun      All These Worlds
  • 2011      Jul       The State of Our Alien Affairs
  • 2011      Aug      Is there Art on Other Planets?
  • 2011      Oct      Planetary Changes of the Fourth Kind
  • 2011      Dec      Losing Venus

2010

  • 2010      Feb      Lunar New Flash: LCROSS Impact
  • 2010      Mar      The Dream is Coming Back
  • 2010      Apr      The Right Stuff
  • 2010      Jul       Venus Lives
  • 2010      Aug      Familiar Forms on Fried & Frozen Worlds
  • 2010      Nov      Legal Aliens
  • 2010      Dec      Bring on the Exo-Earths

2009

  • 2009      Jan      Through the Glass, Darkly?
  • 2009      Feb      Living Dangerously
  • 2009      Mar      What’s a Planet?
  • 2009      April      MARS: Feel the Vibe
  • 2009      May      Monkeying with the World
  • 2009      June    The Earth-size World Next Door
  • 2009      July      It’s Full of Moonlets
  • 2009      Aug      To Explore the Same Old New Worlds
  • 2009      Sept     Back to the Future
  • 2009      Oct      Too Many Moons
  • 2009      Nov      Another Giant Leap
  • 2009      Dec      Revising Earth’s Biography

 

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