Stories by Sarah Lewin Frasier

Rare Newborn Planet May Be the Youngest Ever Detected

The Kepler space telescope has discovered an exoplanet that is just five million to 10 million years old—much younger than the typical planet

Supermassive Black Hole Found in Unlikely Cosmic Backwater

The discovery of an object 17 billion times the sun's mass may mean many more such monsters are out there

NASA Picks Tiny Satellites to Ride on Giant Rocket's First Flight

When the Space Launch System launches in 2018, its passengers will be 13 small CubeSats off to explore the solar system

Superfast "Cannonball" Star Likely Blasted from Supernova

Rocketing along at more than 960,000 miles per hour, the rare star is stained in mysterious carbon

A Garden Grows in Space: First Zinnias Bloom, to an Astronaut's Delight

NASA’s Veggie program takes a big step forward in its goal to learn how to grow more complicated plants in space

Dying Star Destroys a Dwarf Planet

Astronomers witness a white dwarf star ripping worlds to pieces in real time

In Celebration of Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer

A Q&A with artist Sydney Padua, whose graphic novel illustrates the Victorian mathematician’s friendship with inventor Charles Babbage

Astronomers Spy Unexplained Ripples Racing through an Infant Solar System

Moving at 35,000 kilometers per hour, the mysterious waves could come from stellar flares or unseen planets

The Room with the Weakest Magnetic Field on Earth

Experiments in the chamber could answer these five questions

NASA Camera Snaps Stunning View of Earth and Moon [Video]

The Deep Space Climate Observatory watches our planet from more than a million kilometers away

Book Review: Genius at Play

Recommendations from Scientific American

Neptune's Strange Magnetic Field Stretches Arms in New Model [Video]

The field is 27 times more powerful than Earth’s and sits at an angle on the planet, changing chaotically as it interacts with the solar wind

A 100-Year Debate about the Eardrum Comes to an End

Why does the membrane look remarkably similar in mammals and reptiles?

Dams over the Decades

Did Dinosaurs Walk on Their Fingertips at One Point?

Modern-day alligators may illustrate how dinosaurs went from two-legged to four

New Mathematics Could Neutralize Pathogens That Resist Antibiotics

A “time machine” algorithm, backed by experimental data, reveals how to cycle drugs to reverse resistance

Book Review:Black Hole

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

Instant Egghead: How do geysers erupt over and over?

Geologists release the most detailed data set yet on the explosive choreography between water and steam

Mother Plants Tell Their Seeds When to Sprout

Parents pass down “memories” of recent temperatures to prepare seed for incoming spring weather

Book Review: Invisible

Books and recommendations from Scientific American