Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

Photography is a form of time travel.

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats.

I as an astrophysicist, see the universe, feel the universe, smell the universe every day. Every day. And for people to say, I'm cool, I'm right here, it's all I need.