Ben Bova

It seems that whenever somebody disagrees with my opinion, they bring up the fact that I write science fiction.

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

When you wish upon a star. Makes no difference who you are

While our schools struggle to teach children how to read, I’m wondering if literacy — the ability to read and write — isn’t on its way out.

I became interested in astronomy when I was 11 years old, on my first visit to a planetarium. When they turned out all the lights and flashed the stars onto that domed ceiling, I was hooked for life.

They said it couldn’t be done. No less a genius than Leonardo da Vinci tried to design a workable airplane. He got as far as building a couple of gliders and apparently even soared off the roof of a barn ...

You have the right to bear arms. The Supreme Court recently decided that the Second Amendment’s guarantee of that right supersedes all state and local laws banning gun ownership.

I’ve been following the debate over Jackson Laboratory with more than a little interest.

As the old saying goes, some days you can’t win for losin’. Here are a few examples.

Every Fourth of July I think of the words spoken by the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, in his first inaugural address: “Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can ...

As anyone who spent the winter shoveling snow off the driveway can tell you, global warming doesn’t mean that every day of the year will be warmer than it was last year, all over the world.

I’ve gone to several science-fiction conventions recently. They’re fun.

It’s happened. Scientists have created life in the laboratory.

Some thoughts on the 66th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France, during World War II. Sea power won that battle for us. In fact, sea power won the war, both the fight against Nazi Germany in Europe and the ...

Last month marked the 50th anniversary of the first attempt to detect extraterrestrial intelligence. In April 1960, Frank Drake aimed a radio telescope at two relatively nearby stars, seeking radio signals that might be made by intelligent alien creatures.