- 14 December 2023: Australian Associated Press story: "The one to watch": meteor shower to wow stargazers. Syndication:
- 24 October 2023: A story about our biography of William Dawes appeared in Macquarie University's This Week newsletter: Book reveals First Fleet astronomer, the mysterious Mr Dawes
- 27 September 2023: I was asked for comments on claims that India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar probe had landed "near the lunar South Pole": South China Morning Post; coverage:
- 1 September 2023: Featured in the Dutch press (Trouw newspaper): Het wordt dringen in de ruimte, op weg naar de grondstoffen van de maan; also covered by De Morgen (Belgium); 2
- 31 August 2023: Science and Technology Australia press release: STA welcomes top STEM leaders to committees, 2; covered by Mirage News, The National Tribune; The Pressroom
- 31 August 2023: Australian Associated Press story:
Second night lucky for spotters of big, bright moon. Syndication:
- 31 August 2023: How to watch the rare super blue moon in 2023: The exact times in every state, a story by 7 News citing some of my comments; see also Yeeyi (in Chinese) and Huaglad (in Chinese). A story in February 2024 by TS2 (in French) also referred to my comments.
- 29 August 2023: This month's blue supermoon
continues to excite, so I was asked for comment by the Sydney
Morning Herald: Once in a blue supermoon: Eyes on the
horizon for lunar double feature, following the Australian Science
Media Centre's decision to highlight me as their weekly expert. Syndication:
(1) WA Today (2) Brisbane Times (3) News aggregator: Newstral (4) TS2 Space (5) The Age (Melbourne)
- 28 August 2023: I was asked to provide
advice for a story for news.com.au: Best
way to see rare blue supermoon for last time until 2029. Syndicated by:
(1) The Daily Telegraph (2) The Courier Mail (3) Redian News; 2 (in Chinese) (4) Sydney Today (in Chinese) (5) 6park BBS (in Chinese) (6) Micro Headline (in Chinese) (7) Career Engine; 2 (in Chinese) (8) Mercury (Tasmania) (9) Yeeyi (in Chinese) (10) huaglad.com (in Chinese) (11) MindFood (NZ) (12) AU123.com (in Chinese) (13) We Sydney (in Chinese) (14) Balkans Times (15) Sohu.com (in Chinese) (16) dealmoon (in Chinese)
- 24 August 2023: I was quoted a number of times by a journalist writing for Astronomy magazine: India makes history with its first Moon landing (a copy with mangled phrases was published here)
- 23 August 2023: Russia has declared a new
space race, hoping to join forces with China. Here's why that's
unlikely, de Grijs R., 2023, The Conversation; article. Press coverage (roughly in order of publication):
(1) The National Tribune (2) MENA|FN (3) Tolerance webzine (4) Philippine Canadian Inquirer (5) Asia Times (6) Yahoo! news; Yahoo! sport (7) phys.org (8) Flipboard (9) Mirage News (10) Evening Report (NZ) (11) Foreign Affairs (NZ) (12) Radio interview on Canberra Live's Drive Show by 2CC's Leon Delaney (13) EconoTimes (14) Moon Daily (15) Russo Daily (16) Space War (17) Knowridge Science Report (18) WorldTimeToday (19) Daily Express US (rewritten as a news story) (20) Scroll.in; Spotlight (21) Cosmos Magazine (22) Stuff South Africa (23) TS2 Space (24) RealClearScience (25) Copernical (26) Ground News (27) The Insight Post (28) Nspirement (29) Catalyst McGill (14 Dec 23)
- 14 August 2023: On request from the ABC, I commented on this story: The best photos of the Perseid meteor shower from around the world (in Bahasa Indonesia); picked up by Republika Indonesia; Shut; NewsCop
- 8 August 2023: I was asked to comment on the
appearance of a bright "meteor" over Melbourne: see Expert
Reaction; my comments were broadly covered by (1) The
Age and (2) Newsweek,
with more condensed reporting by
(3) The Guardian (4) National News Nigeria (NNN) (5) Kurir (in Serbian) (6) index.hr (in Croatian) (7) Tuzlarije (in Croatian) (8) Bosna Info (in Bosnian) (9) Klix (in Bosnian) (10) Večer (in Slovenian) (11) Il Post (in Italian) (12) Roccarainola online (in Italian) (13) Italy 24 (in French) (14) Italy 24 (in Spanish) (15) Italy 24 (16) Analitika (in Montenegrin) (17) CdM (in Montenegrin) (18) Aktuelno.me (in Montenegrin) (19) TV Azteca; TV Azteca Guatemala (in Spanish) (20) ditmasparkart.com (21) Australian Chinese Daily (in Chinese) (22) (in Vietnamese) (23) SOHA (in Vietnamese) (24) Báomói (in Vietnamese) (25) Tin247 (in Vietnamese) (26) Guruz (in Vietnamese) (27) Times Indonesia (in Bahasa Indonesia) (28) Viva (in Bahasa Indonesia) (29) Antena 1 (in Romanian) (30) inkl
- 26-27 July 2023: Richard delivered an opening
address and a plenary lecture at the 4th World Photonics Conference
and the 12th Applied Optics and Photonics China conference (AOPC2023); press
coverage:
(1) Science China (2) Science China (2) (3) C114 (4) SHI FAIR (5) instrument.com.cn (6) ZiDongHua (7) zg198.net (8) zwzxxw.com (9) MICE-GZ (10) eeany.cn (11) JuFair
- 22 May 2023: I was asked to comment
on the appearance of a bright fireball in the skies over
Queensland last weekend; see the coverage of my comments in:
(1) The Canberra Times (2) The Courier (Ballarat, Vic) (3) The Standard (Warrnambool) (4) The Bendigo Advertiser (5) The Northern Daily Leader (6) Goulburn Post (7) Blue Mountains Gazette (8) St George and Sutherland Shire Leader (9) The Wimmera Mail-Times (10) The North West Star (11) Euro DayFR (12) Awani Review (13) Central Western Daily (14) 20 Minutes (in French) (15) MSN.fr (in French) (16) Ouest France (in French) (17) CNEWS (in French) (18) Ma Ville (in French) (19) Sud Ouest (in French) (20) BFMTV (in French) (21) Yahoo.fr (in French) (22) DayFR (in French) (23) Epoch Times (in French) (24) TRT France (in French) (25) LODJ (in French) (26) Head Topics (in French) (27) Science & Vie (in French) (28) DayFR (in Italian)
- 30 March 2023: Expert reaction: Second coronal hole detected on the Sun in one week (with a quote from Richard); Scientias media coverage (in Dutch)
- 20 February 2023: Sky shows: A stargazer's guide to 2023: My recommendations for night-sky events to observe this year, published in Macquarie University's Lighthouse; led to an ABC Radio Melbourne Victorian Afternoons interview and I was cited by an Australian Geographic explainer (19 April 2023)
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Press coverage from previous years: 2001--2022