Stories by Sarah Scoles

As drones get less expensive and computer vision systems improve, rescuers are getting help from artificial eyes in the sky

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser is set to make its inaugural trip to orbit to deliver supplies to the International Space Station

At a recent workshop, researchers and journalists debated how to announce a potential discovery of extraterrestrial life

Several branches of modern physics, including quantum theory and cosmology, suggest our universe may be just one of many

Scientists are ramping up production of the isotope actinium 225, which could help treat prostate cancer

Volunteers can join several crowdsourced science projects during the total solar eclipse in April to contribute to research

The U.S. is ramping up construction of new “plutonium pits” for nuclear weapons

Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space

Scientists debate what the future of the cosmos looks like and whether space will ever stop getting bigger and bigger

Physicists are on an ever urgent quest to find a fuller understanding of what makes the cosmos tick, which they call a theory of everything

At a stay in Biosphere 2, I went in skeptical but learned to understand why analog astronauts love what they do

The laws of physics allow time travel. So why haven’t people become chronological hoppers?

Science might be redefining what “life out there” really means.

New “exascale” supercomputers will bring breakthroughs in science. But the technology also exists to study nuclear weapons

Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings

A new investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena could have bigger impacts on atmospheric science than on astrobiology

The RadSecure program aims to remove dangerous substances from medical facilities and other industries

An archival project aims to document the experiences of people who suffered from U.S. nuclear weapons testing

Scientists lost one of their best tools with the demise of the Arecibo telescope

Scientists aim to make the search for extraterrestrial intelligence academically respectable

Traditional rockets won't get us to the stars. Some scientists are pushing against the edges of physics to find out what will

A laboratory buried nearly a mile beneath South Dakota is at the forefront of a global push for subterranean science

The National Science Foundation is considering pulling its support from the famous Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico

The space agency has embarked on a long and arduous process to select a new grand space observatory that will meet the needs of astronomers in the mid-2030s