About Us

SPACE.com, launched in 1999, is the world's No. 1 source for news of astronomy, skywatching, space exploration, commercial spaceflight and related technologies.

Our team of experienced reporters, editors and video producers explore the latest discoveries, missions, trends and futuristic ideas, interviewing expert sources and offering up deep and broad analysis of the findings and issues that are fundamental to or understanding of the universe and our place in it.

SPACE.com articles are regularly featured on the web sites of our media partners: AOL, FoxNews.com, MSNBC.com and Yahoo.

SPACE.com also publishes articles from these media partners: Astrobiology Magazine, CollectSpace, Florida Today, The SETI Institute, SpaceNews, SpaceflightNow.com, Technovelgy.com

We invite you to join us, as we explore something amazing every day.

Editor and staff bios

Robert Roy Britt, Editor in Chief, TechMediaNetwork

Rob was a writer, editor and Director of Site Operations at SPACE.com starting in 1999. He served as Managing Editor of LiveScience since its launch in 2004. He now oversees news operations for SPACE.com, LiveScience, Newsarama and TechNewsDaily. Prior to joining the company, Rob was an editor at The Star-Ledger in New Jersey. He has a journalism degree from Humboldt State University in California.

Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor

Tariq joined TechMediaNetwork's SPACE.com team in 2001 as a staff writer, and later editor, covering human spaceflight, exploration and space science. He became SPACE.com's Managing Editor in 2009. Before joining SPACE.com, Tariq was a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times in California covering city issues in Huntington Beach and La Habra, as well as education in Fullerton. He has journalism degrees from the University of Southern California and New York University.

Andrea Thompson, Senior Writer

Andrea Thompson has been a writer for LiveScience and SPACE.com since 2007. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in 2004 and a Master's in the same subject in 2006. She attended the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University and graduated with a Master of Arts in 2006. She writes for both SPACE.com and LiveScience.

Clara Moskowitz, Staff Writer

Clara has a bachelor's degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She writes for both SPACE.com and LiveScience.

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