Tom Brown
Tom Brown is a freelance science writer living in New York whose work has appeared in the Guardian and Al Jazeera. He is the recipient of the Covering Climate Now Award, the AGU Data Visualization Award and the Silver Fetisov Journalism Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism. He graduated from the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing and English Literature course and published his debut science-fiction short story collection The Oblivious Pool with Austin Macauley Publishers in 2022.
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Why making lunar standard time is in everyone's best interests.

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Engineers are increasingly turning to the concept of "biomimicry" for the next generation of Mars robots.

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Satellites forced to avoid space debris appear to have lost some of their data due to the movement. They've also lost precious fuel.

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Asteroid 2024 PT5 is considered Earth's mini-moon and may be a key target for potential asteroid mining operations.

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The World Meteorological Organization maintains a list of 21 hurricane names for each year. In especially busy years, a supplemental list is used.

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Cheap, uninsured satellites are creating more space junk — and it's starting to rain down on our heads.

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The space environment is not kind to human bodies. The final frontier may therefore be the perfect place to study cancer — and someday even treat it.

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Scientists took the initiative to name Storm Gannon after a space weather scientist who died in 2024. This was the storm that sparked beautiful auroras across the globe that same year.

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Mother's Day 2024 heralded Mexico's most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades. Here's why scientists say this is something to track.

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An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland could help explain why Arctic ice is melting even faster than expected.
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