Rebecca Boyle earned a degree in history from Colorado State University and claims that attending Space Camp in 6th grade is what really set the course of her career. Beginning as a daily newspaper reporter, Rebecca interviewed presidents and presidential candidates, state and local lawmakers, and covered major criminal court cases. She has visited and reported about particle accelerators, genetic sequencing labs, bat caves, the middle of a lake, the tops of mountains, and the retractable domes of some of Earth’s largest telescopes.
Based in Colorado Springs, Boyle writes for Scientific American, Quanta Magazine and The Atlantic, and Atlas Obscura. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Smithsonian Air & Space, and Popular Science. Her work has appeared in Wired, MIT Technology Review, Nature, Science, Popular Mechanics, New Scientist, Audubon, Distillations, and many other publications.
Boyle’s book, Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are is a new history of humanity’s relationship with the Moon, which Boyle has not yet visited on assignment.