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Damond Benningfield, Science Writer

Damond Benningfield

Damond Benningfield is a freelance science writer and audio producer in Austin, Texas. Among other projects, he writes and produces StarDate, a daily radio program about astronomy and space exploration, and Science and the Sea, a weekly program about marine science. He has been involved with several other short-format radio programs. Benningfield, a native of Austin, also serves as executive editor of StarDate magazine. He has contributed to almost 50 magazines, newspapers, and websites, including Air & Space/Smithsonian, Smithsonian, and Astronomy. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from The University of Texas at Austin.

A boxy machine with legs at its corners sits atop a battered gray landscape.
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Lunar Ice Might Be Easier to Reach Than We Thought

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 11 April 202511 April 2025

An instrument aboard the Vikram lander suggests that buried water ice could be found at higher latitudes, making it more abundant and easier to extract than previously believed.

Una cuadrícula muestra imágenes de 74 anillos brillantes de diversas formas, tamaños y ángulos.
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Cinturones polvorientos ofrecen una visión más clara de la formación de exoplanetas

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 31 March 202531 March 2025

Las observaciones en longitudes de onda milimétricas de polvo y guijarros en 74 sistemas estelares sugieren que las migraciones planetarias podrían ser más comunes de lo que pensábamos.

Bright orange, blue, and white stars glisten against a dark background.
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A Super Speedy Star May Be Streaking Through Our Galaxy

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 10 March 202510 March 2025

Astronomers suggest the star is towing along an exoplanet. The system could be traveling fast enough to escape the Milky Way.

A grid shows images of 74 bright rings of various shapes, sizes, and angles.
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Dusty Belts Provide Clearer Insights into Exoplanet Formation

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 18 February 202518 February 2025

Millimeter-wavelength observations of dust and pebbles in 74 star systems hint that planetary migrations might be more common than we realized.

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Straightening Out Uranus’s Magnetosphere

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 6 December 20246 December 2024

New analysis of Voyager 2 observations shows that the craft arrived amid gusty solar wind, muddying our ideas about the giant planet.

A bright blue-white ball, the white dwarf, is surrounded by stars and faint wisps, with part of a dark sphere in front of it, the possible Earth-like planet.
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Earth May Survive the Sun’s Demise

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 4 November 202411 November 2024

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

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ALMA Watches the Surface of a Star “Boil”

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 10 October 202410 October 2024

Observations of R Doradus, a nearby red giant, provide the first timescale for convection on the surface of any star other than the Sun.

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Curiosity Digs Up Evidence of a Cold, Wet Martian Past

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 21 August 202421 August 2024

Amorphous materials, which are rarely studied on Earth, yield insights into the history of Gale Crater and the early Martian environment.

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Waves May Be Crashing on Titan’s Shores

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 24 July 202424 July 2024

A new study suggests that wind-driven waves could be sculpting the coastlines of the lakes and seas on Saturn’s largest moon.

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A Splashy Meteorite Was Forged in Multiple Collisions

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 7 June 20249 June 2024

The Winchcombe meteorite was recovered, largely from a driveway, just hours after it fell to Earth, preserving evidence that its early relatives could have filled Earth’s oceans.

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