Rebecca Boyle is a freelance science journalist who covers astronomy, physics, deep time, and climate change. She is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a frequent contributor at FiveThirtyEight.Boyle's work has appeared in Scientific American, New Scientist, Aeon, Wired, Popular Science, and other publications, and has twice been anthologized in the Best American Science & Nature Writing. Her first book, "Walking with the Moon: Uncovering the Secrets It Holds to Our Past and Our Future," was published in 2023.