Rebecca Boyle is a contributing editor at Scientific American, a contributing writer for Quanta Magazine and The Atlantic, and a frequent contributor at the New York Times, Popular Science, Smithsonian Air & Space, and many other publications. She is a member of the group science blog, The Last Word on Nothing. Rebecca was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the recipient of numerous writing awards throughout her career. Her work has been anthologized three times in The Best American Science & Nature Writing. Rebecca is a former newspaper reporter, a former Space Camp attendee, and a lifelong Moon enthusiast.