Stories by Lucianne Walkowicz

Lucianne Walkowicz is an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and co-founder of the JustSpace Alliance. Credit: Nick Higgins

Don’t Count on Billionaires to Get Humanity into Space

Far from pioneering wide access to orbit, privately funded spaceflight is geared to perpetuate inequities in space and on Earth

The successor to the Hubble currently honors a man who acquiesced to homophobic government policies during the 1950s and 1960s

The National Space Council has been revived, but whether that's good for astronomy, planetary science and space exploration remains to be seen

Little red stars pose big questions in the search for intelligent life