Stories by Sarah Scoles

The SciFy program tests whether adversaries’ most outlandish scientific claims add up or fall apart

Scientists are designing techniques to smash up space rocks that could be headed our way

A Rhode Island start-up is working to recycle spent nuclear fuel into long-lasting power systems for the military

Physicists cannot access anything that existed before the start of time and space, but they have theories

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately

These hobbyists use GPS coordinates to hunt for secret prizes around the world

An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-funded science

The search for extraterrestrial life has periodically been turned upside down

Surveys show that how nuclear strike options are presented strongly influences the decision a president may make

A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding it needs

Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first contact and also hint at the point of language itself

Several companies have contracts with NASA to design private space habitats to replace the International Space Station once it’s gone

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent observations could overturn this long-held assumption

A special spacecraft will guide the space station through Earth’s atmosphere, but what about other large pieces of space debris?

NASA’s Artemis moon program faces challenges the Apollo missions never did

Reductions to American research at the South Pole could affect the politics of the southernmost continent

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