Erik Lindqvist

Erik Lindqvist covers Earth science, space weather and sky events, including auroras, eclipses, volcanoes and earthquakes. He spent six years as an interpretive ranger with the National Park Service in Alaska, leading glacier and volcano programs. He has a BS in geology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and lives in Anchorage with his partner and two sled dogs.

Physics
Thorium nuclear clock ticks steadily for 24 hours
A Vienna-led team kept a thorium clock's laser steady for more than a day with no conventional atomic clock holding it in place.
Erik Lindqvist Oct 12
Space
Apollo 7: NASA's first crewed Apollo flight
On Oct. 11, 1968, Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham launched on the mission that rebooted the Apollo program after the Apollo 1 fire.
Erik Lindqvist Oct 12
Space
Isaacman to Pilot NASA Jet at NFL Game on Oct. 11
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will fly one of three F-5 fighter jets over MetLife Stadium before the Jets-Browns game as part of the agency's Inspiration Tour.
Erik Lindqvist Oct 11
Space
Pioneer Labs' Mars microbe may build a city, lab suggests
Space.com reports on a new engineered microbe that can live off simulated Martian dirt and make materials for a Mars city.
Erik Lindqvist Oct 10
Space
Dark Matter showrunner Blake Crouch on season 2's challenge
Season 2 of the Apple TV thriller moves beyond the 2016 novel, and showrunner Blake Crouch tells Space.com what that required.
Erik Lindqvist Oct 10
Missions
NASA's GIMLI project will hunt for a secret moon cave
A new NASA-funded investigation aims to confirm whether a lunar pit is connected to a vast underground lava tube.
Erik Lindqvist Oct 9

Thorium nuclear clock ticks steadily for 24 hours

Apollo 7: NASA's first crewed Apollo flight

Isaacman to Pilot NASA Jet at NFL Game on Oct. 11

Pioneer Labs' Mars microbe may build a city, lab suggests

Dark Matter showrunner Blake Crouch on season 2's challenge

NASA's GIMLI project will hunt for a secret moon cave