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Ashley Yeager

Associate News Editor

Ashley Yeager is the associate news editor at Science News. Previously, she worked at The Scientist, where she was an associate editor for nearly three years. She has also worked as a freelance editor and writer, and as a writer at the Simons Foundation, Duke University and the W.M. Keck Observatory. She was the web producer for Science News from 2013 to 2015, and was an intern at the magazine in the summer of 2008. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a master’s degree in science writing from MIT. Her book, Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter and Beyond, on the life of astronomer Vera Rubin, will be published by MIT Press in August.

All Stories by Ashley Yeager

  1. Planetary Science

    Rare, free-floating exoplanet found

  2. Planetary Science

    Neptune’s lost inner moon found

  3. Particle Physics

    Higgs boson’s effects on universe boosted

  4. Planetary Science

    Fomalhaut star system is a triple

  5. Planetary Science

    Maps reveal clouds on distant exoplanet

    Astronomers chart the atmosphere of Kepler-7b, some 1,000 light-years away.

  6. Planetary Science

    Titan’s plastic atmosphere

  7. Earth

    Quake forms island in Arabian Sea

  8. Materials Science

    Chip curves space-time

    A manipulated material could help model general relativity in the lab.

  9. Oceans

    Greenland Sea warming faster than world ocean

    Deep water temperature of Greenland Sea rises 0.3 degrees Celsius in 30 years.

  10. Environment

    Pregnant women carry fewer traces of flame retardants

    Class of toxins linked to IQ deficits dropped drastically in three years, a new study shows.

  11. Astronomy

    Last gorge for galaxy’s central black hole gauged

    Relic light suggests the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center was millions of times more active 2 million years ago.

  12. Planetary Science

    Eclipsing the sun, from Mars

    NASA rover catches silhouette of Martian moon