Web articles

• Are there any planets outside of our solar system? (2021)
• What makes a planet? (2006, updated 2015)
• Proposed planet definition (2015)
• Would Planet Nine pass the planet test? (2016, updated 2019)
• There Was a Full Moon and Nothing Happened ... Again (2015)
• Annenberg's 'Sink or Swim' exhibit (2015)
• How realistic is the movie 'Gravity'? (2013)

Consulting for entertainment industry

Some details are omitted to adhere to NDAs and/or protect intellectual property.

• Advised screenwriter on a child prodigy story, 2019.
• Advised writer and director on an exoplanet-related story, 2018.
• Advised screenwriter on a space adventure story, 2018.
• Advised producer on the space adventure story Ad Astra, 2018.
• Advised researcher on CBS's Star Trek: Discovery, 2017-2018.
• Advised consulting producer on Netflix show Brainchild, 2017.
• Advised screenwriter on an impact-related story, 2017.
• Advised screenwriter on an asteroid-related story, 2017.
• Advised screenwriter on a SETI-related story, 2016.
• Advised screenwriters on Netflix show Lost in Space, 2016.
• Advised screenwriter on an impact-related story, 2015.
• Advised screenwriter on an asteroid-related story, 2015.
• Advised actor on a space-related story, 2015.
• Advised screenwriter and producer on a planet-related story, 2015.

Public speaking and interviews

• The Elderllama Podcast interview, "Aliens, Astrophysics, and Asteroid Impacts", May 3, 2021.
• South China Morning Post interview, "China should hunt asteroids with radar", Feb. 4, 2021.
• Science Alert interview, "They All Came from Us", Nov. 19, 2020
• Washington Post interview, "Astronomers spy asteroid that has its own moon", Feb. 13, 2020.
• UCLA Exploring Your Universe talk, "Life in the Universe", Nov. 3, 2019.
• UCLA Emeriti/Retiree Associations, "Consulting for the Entertainment Industry", Jun. 13, 2019.
• Talk to UCLA alumni and friends, "The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations", Jul. 3, 2019.
• Talk to UCLA alumni and friends, "The Total Solar Eclipse of 2019", Jun. 30, 2019.
• Talk to UCLA alumni and friends, "The Search for Life in the Universe", Jun. 28, 2019.
• UCLA Emeriti & Retirees, "Consulting for the Entertainment Industry", Jun. 13, 2019.
• UCLA panel moderator, "Communicating Science Effectively in Today's World", May 21, 2019.
• UCLA Alumni Association of Japan, "The Search for Life in the Universe", Mar. 25, 2019.
• Melon Sci-Fi Conference, Hong Kong, "Aliens on the Galactic Silk Road", Mar. 23, 2019.
• Talk at UCLA Alumni Association of Hong Kong, "Search for Life in the Universe", Mar. 21, 2019.
• Talk at California State University, Northridge, Bianchi Planetarium, Mar. 1, 2018.
• UCLA EPSS panel moderator, "Plate tectonics", Oct. 29, 2018.
• Forbes.com interview, "Five Mercury Puzzles", Oct. 16, 2018.
• Mount Wilson Observatory talk, "The search for life in the universe", Sept. 15, 2018.
• L'Express interview, "La Lune, une amie qui vous veut du bien?", Sept. 10, 2018.
• Viking Orion enrichment lecture, "The search for life in the universe", Jun. 17, 2018.
• NYT interview, "Challenging What NASA Knows About Space Rocks", Jun. 14, 2018.
• UCLA EPSS Panel moderator, "Magnetic Structures in the Solar System", Feb. 12, 2018.
• Universe Today interview, "A search for technosignatures in the Kepler field", Feb. 9, 2018.
• Talk at First Friday Ideas Salon, "Are we alone in the universe?", Jan. 5, 2018.
• Forbes.com interview on the number of exoplanets, "Billions Of Exoplanets?", Dec. 31, 2017.
• UCLA EPSS Panel moderator, "Cassini at Saturn", Oct. 26, 2017.
• Talk at Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists, "Questionable Beliefs", Sept. 29, 2017.
• KTHV Television interview, "Does a full moon really impact hospitals?", Sept. 5, 2017.
• Talk in preparation of viewing the Great American Eclipse in Madras, OR, Aug. 21, 2017.
• Westwood Village Rotary Club, "The Great American Eclipse of 2017", Aug. 10, 2017.
• Reuters TV interview, "The Great American Eclipse of 2017", Aug. 9, 2017.
• CBS 2/KCAL 9 TV interview, "The Great American Eclipse of 2017", Aug. 9, 2017.
• BBC mundo interview, "NASA's Asteroid Deflection Mission", July 3, 2017.
• Super News Live interview, "Life in Space", Jun. 27, 2017.
• UCLA EPSS Panel moderator, "It Fell From The Sky!", May 9, 2017.
• Talk at Harvard Club of Southern California, "Out of this World!", Apr. 30, 2017.
• Talk at Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists, "Questionable Beliefs", Apr. 28, 2017.
• Radio interview for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, "The Science Show", Apr. 1, 2017.
• CNET interview, "Planet definition", Mar. 24, 2017.
• Washington Post interview, "Planet definition", Mar. 20, 2017.
• France Télévisions TV interview, "Supermoon", Nov. 14, 2016.
• France Inter radio interview, "Supermoon", Nov. 11, 2016.
• UCLA Exploring Your Universe talk, "Life in the Universe", Nov. 6, 2016.
• Registered nurses of Alberta, "The full moon phenomenon: fact or fiction?", Oct. 27, 2016.
• Wall Street Journal interview, "Full moon and hospital workers", Oct. 17, 2016.
• BBC Mundo interview, "What is a Strawberry Moon?", Jun. 20, 2016.
• Life Science/CBS News interview, "No, Mercury Retrograde Will Not Mess Up Your Life", May 6, 2016.
• Talk to UCLA alumni and friends at Boeing headquarters, "UCLA in Space", Mar. 29, 2016.
• Lateral Magazine interview, "Wandering stars", Mar. 18, 2016.
• Radio Canada interview, "La sombre histoire de Mercure", Mar. 13, 2016.
• UCLA Undergraduate Astronomical Society, "How to define a planet", Feb. 24, 2016.
• Retraction Watch interview, "Why publishing negative findings is hard", Feb. 17, 2016.
• Today's Science interview, Infobase Learning, "Conversation with scientists", Feb. 17, 2016.
• Today's Science interview, Infobase Learning, "How to define a planet", Feb. 10, 2016.
• Talk at SpaceX headquarters, "UCLA in Space", Feb. 4, 2016.
• BBC Sky at Night interview, "Planet Nine", Jan. 29, 2016.
• KPCC radio interview, "Planet Nine: What should its name be if it's found?", Jan. 22, 2016.
• Univision TV interview, "Questionable beliefs associated with the full moon", Nov. 21, 2015.
• LA Times interview, "Why we need a new definition of the word 'planet'", Nov. 13, 2015.
• New Scientist interview, "New definition of planethood", Nov. 11, 2015.
• German Public Radio interview, "What makes a planet?", Nov. 11, 2015.
• XPRIZE panel discussion with Virgin Galactic, Planetary Resources, NASA JPL, Nov. 6, 2015.
• The Guardian interview, "Who you calling a dwarf?", July 15, 2015.
• FiveThirtyEight interview, "Is The Moon To Blame?", Jun. 11, 2015.
• Radio interview The Pulse/WHYY, "Births during a full moon?", aired on May 28, 2015.
• Radio New Zealand interview, "Another Lunar Incident", aired on May 6, 2015.
• BBC Mundo Interview, La luna llena "no tiene la culpa de nada", May 4, 2015.
• Radio Canada interview, "Blame the Moon Study", aired on Mar. 31, 2015.
• Huffington Post interview, "Why We Blame Strange Events On The Full Moon", Mar. 31, 2015.
• Astronomía Online article, "¿Qué es lo que define a un planeta?", (w. R. Tohmé), Mar. 7, 2015.
• M.S. Le Boréal lecture, "Our Home in the Cosmos", Feb. 6, 2015.
• M.S. Le Boréal lecture, "Life in the Universe", Jan. 31, 2015.
• NHK documentary, "Cosmic Front: Mystery of Mercury", Dec. 25, 2014.
• Science and Entertainement Exchange, "Disruption: Asteroid Impacts", Google, Nov. 11, 2014.
• Salon Français de Los Angeles, "Life in the Universe", Apr. 15, 2014.
• Bilingual talk at Alliance Française de Los Angeles, "Life in the Universe", Mar. 6, 2014.
• Interview of NASA Administrator, "A conversation with Charles Bolden", Jan. 22, 2014.
• UCLA Exploring Your Universe talk, "Life in the Universe", Nov. 17, 2013.
• CNN interview, "What's behind the science of `Gravity'?", Sep. 28, 2013.
• Stargazing with UCLA alumni and friends, July 4, 2013.
• Talk to UCLA alumni and friends, "Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe", July 4, 2013.
• Stargazing with UCLA alumni and friends, Jun. 29, 2013.
• Talk to UCLA alumni and friends, "The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations", Jun. 26, 2013.
• Xinhua News Agency, "Shenzhou 10 spacecraft docks with Tiangong 1", Jun. 13, 2013.
• Forbes.com interview on close approach of asteroid 1998 QE2, May 31, 2013.
• Research seminar for Clare Boothe Luce Scholars, "Life in the Universe", May 6, 2013.
• UCLA-JPL outreach event, "Asteroid Radar Astronomy", Apr. 24, 2013.
• "Galilean Satellites" talk then stargazing, New Roads School, Santa Monica, Mar 1, 2013.
• New Scientist interview, "Dinosaur-killing space rock was a terrible twosome", Feb. 9, 2013.
• Mindshare LA - UCLA, "Origin and Distribution of Life in the Universe", Nov. 15, 2012.
• AP interview, "Saturn moon Titan may harbor ocean below surface", Jun. 28, 2012.
• Venus transit viewing on projection telescope, Palisades Park, Santa Monica, Jun. 5, 2012.
• Tarzana Medical Center, "Exploration of Mercury, Venus, Europa", May 30, 2012.
• UCLA alumni association of Japan, "Exploration of Mercury, Venus, Europa", May 22, 2012.
• Space.com interview, "Did US Radar Destroy Mars Probe?", Jan. 17, 2012.
• Radio Canada interview, "Mercure se dévoile à la sonde MESSENGER", aired Jun. 19, 2011.
• Talk to UCLA Physical Sciences Board, "Planets and Exoplanets", May 14, 2011.
• Radio Canada interview, "La planète Mercure", aired on Mar. 27, 2011.
• Science talk with DC-area UCLA alumni, "Mercury & MESSENGER", Mar. 21, 2011.
• AP interview, "Planet Mercury visible before NASA craft orbits it", Mar. 11, 2011.
• Daily Bruin interview, "Diagram measures planetary colors", Nov. 17, 2010.
• Daily Bruin interview, "Jupiter's belt mysteriously disappears", May 25, 2010.
• Current Science magazine interview, Mar. 2010.
• New Scientist interview, "Are Venus and Earth in a long-distance relationship? ", Mar. 16, 2010.
• Special Public Session at AAS meeting, "Planetary Taxonomy", Jun. 9, 2009.
• Steven J. Ostro symposium, "Binary Asteroids in the Near-Earth Population", Jun. 4, 2009.
• Cornell Club of France, "Frontiers of Solar System Exploration", May 22, 2008.
• Radio Canada interview, "Nouvelles fraîches de Mercure", aired on Feb. 3, 2008.
• Astronomie Magazine interview, "Un messager pour Mercure", Jan. 2008.
• Science World magazine interview, "Squishy Center", Sep. 2007.
• La Recherche magazine interview, "Mercure, au coeur fluide", July-Aug. 2007.
• Cornell Reunion 2007, "What makes a planet?", Jun. 9, 2007.
• National Geographic News interview, "Liquid Mercury", May 3, 2007.
• Astronomy magazine podcast, "Mercury's core", May 3, 2007.
• Museum of Science and Technology, Syracuse, NY, "What makes a planet?", Apr. 5, 2007.
• NYT interview, "Prediction Proved: Light Speeds Up an Asteroid as it Spins", Mar. 13, 2007.
• Regional Planetary Image Facility meeting, "Science Update: Ice on the Moon?", Nov. 1, 2006.
• News 10 TV interview, "The Moon's cold, but not icy", aired on Oct 19-20, 2006.
• News 10 TV interview, Asteroid impact risk, aired on Aug. 19-20, 2006.
• News 10 TV interview, "Cornell professor weighs on asteroid threat", aired on Feb. 19, 2006.
• Cornell Friends of Astronomy Banquet Dinner Talk, "Asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects", Oct. 8, 2005.
• Teacher Workshop Presentation, "Binary Minor Planets", Jan. 17, 2005.