Vicky Stein

Vicky Stein

Contributing Writer

Vicky Stein is a science writer based in California. She has a bachelor's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Dartmouth College and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz (2018). Afterwards, she worked as a news assistant for PBS NewsHour, and now works as a freelancer covering anything from asteroids to zebras. Follow her most recent work (and most recent pictures of nudibranchs) on Twitter. 

Latest articles by Vicky Stein

Do parallel universes exist? Do we live in just one of many bubble universes?

Do parallel universes exist? We might live in a multiverse.

By Vicky Stein, Daisy Dobrijevic published

Reference There are a few good theories for a multiverse — an infinite number of parallel universes besides our own.

Reference
Special relativity equation (E=mc^2) on a chalkboard.

Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity

By Vicky Stein published

Einstein's paper on special relativity revolutionized light, light speed, matter and energy with a deceptively simple equation.

Astronomy
JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi is pictured inside the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world," as the orbital complex flew 263 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. He was onboard as part of Crew-1 and Expedition 64.

Soichi Noguchi: JAXA astronaut and SpaceX Crew Dragon mission specialist

By Vicky Stein published

A biography of Soichi Noguchi, JAXA astronaut and only non-American so far to fly in the space shuttle, the Soyuz and SpaceX Crew Dragon.

Missions
Commercial Crew Nine astronaut Victor Glover.

Victor Glover: NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew Dragon pilot

By Vicky Stein published

Victor Glover is a NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew Dragon pilot and is set to become the first Black astronaut to embark on a mission to the moon during Artemis 2.

Human Spaceflight
China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe is seen by a tiny camera ejected from the spacecraft in a photo captured 15 million miles from Earth.

Tianwen-1: China's first Mars mission

By Vicky Stein last updated

Tianwen-1 is the ambitious first independent interplanetary mission from China, now in orbit around Mars.

Launches & Spacecraft
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