Dr. 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 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

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