Briley Lewis

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Briley Lewis (she/her) is a freelance science writer and Ph.D. Candidate/NSF Fellow at the UCLA studying Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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NASA asteroid concept
Science

How often do asteroids come near Earth?

By Briley Lewis

SpaceX will attempt the first commercial spacewalk
Private Space Flight

SpaceX will attempt the first commercial spacewalk

By Briley Lewis

In the era of private spaceflight, who gets to be an astronaut?
International Space Station

In the era of private spaceflight, who gets to be an astronaut?

By Briley Lewis

Illustration of an astronaut on Mars, using a remote control drone to inspect a nearby cliff.
Health

Traveling to Mars could destroy your kidneys

By Briley Lewis

Steve
Science

Have you seen Steve? Look up and you might spot the sky phenomenon.

By Briley Lewis

Zebrafish
Animals

Why do we send so many fish to space?

By Briley Lewis

NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel
International Space Station

NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel

By Briley Lewis

Eros in Stereo
Mars

Mars might have an asteroid problem

By Briley Lewis

How ‘safe mode’ protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS
Deep Space

How ‘safe mode’ protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS

By Briley Lewis

Artist's concept of a hypothetical planet orbiting far from the Sun.
Science

Astronomers still haven’t decided if Planet 9 is real

By Briley Lewis

Astronomers fight to save a major X-ray space telescope
Deep Space

Astronomers fight to save a major X-ray space telescope

By Briley Lewis

Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?
Deep Space

Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?

By Briley Lewis

An image of the core of our Milky Way galaxy. This view combines the sharp imaging of Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) with color imagery from a previous Spitzer Space Telescope survey done with its Infrared Astronomy Camera (IRAC).
Deep Space

Youth-stealing stars could explain ‘missing giants’ at the Milky Way’s center

By Briley Lewis

Voyager, Chandrayaan, Curiosity: How do spacecraft get their names?
Science

Voyager, Chandrayaan, Curiosity: How do spacecraft get their names?

By Briley Lewis

How lightning on exoplanets could make it harder to find alien life
Environment

How lightning on exoplanets could make it harder to find alien life

By Briley Lewis

Why our tumultuous sun was relatively quiet in the late 1600s
Science

Why our tumultuous sun was relatively quiet in the late 1600s

By Briley Lewis

ESA will send a triangle of satellites into space to study gravitational waves
Science

ESA will send a triangle of satellites into space to study gravitational waves

By Briley Lewis

Halley’s comet is on its way back towards Earth
Science

Halley’s comet is on its way back towards Earth

By Briley Lewis

How do you make cosmic sausage?
Science

How do you make cosmic sausage?

By Briley Lewis

International Liquid Mirror Telescope
Deep Space

Looking at the stars through a puddle of mercury

By Briley Lewis