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Sarah Scoles

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Sarah Scoles is the author of Making Contact and They Are Already Here. She covers the technology, science, and culture of space.

The Downlink

How Landsat Chronicled 50 Years on a Changing, Fiery Planet

Jul 5, 2022 8:00 AM

The Downlink

Spotting Objects From Space Is Easy. This Challenge Is Harder

Jun 28, 2022 7:00 AM

The Downlink

These Satellites See Through the Clouds to Track Flooding

Jun 21, 2022 8:00 AM

The Downlink

How Lost Hikers Can Send an SOS to Space

Jun 14, 2022 8:00 AM

Life Support

Astronaut Gear of the Future May Fight Bone and Muscle Loss

Nov 9, 2021 8:00 AM

Kaleidoscope Eyes

NASA’s Lucy Mission Gets Ready to Fly by the Trojan Asteroids

Aug 17, 2021 7:00 AM

Ground Truth

GPS III’s Long Journey Is Picking Up Speed

Jun 17, 2021 1:05 PM

Get LIT

The Space and Air Forces Launch an LGBTQ Task Force

May 28, 2021 7:00 AM

Touchdown

NASA Lands the Perseverance Rover on Mars

Feb 18, 2021 4:03 PM

Graveyard Orbit

There Are No Real Rules for Repairing Satellites in Space—Yet

Dec 10, 2020 8:00 AM

Ghost Particles

Neutrino Detectors Could Be Used to Spot Nuclear Rogues

Oct 6, 2020 8:00 AM

Backchannel

‘Dr. Phosphine’ and the Possibility of Life on Venus

Sep 14, 2020 11:00 AM

Moonshot

The Feds Want These Teams to Hack a Satellite—From Home

Aug 6, 2020 8:00 AM

Watch the Stars

This Citizen Science Gig Pays People to Match Space Photos

May 26, 2020 9:00 AM

Eye in the Sky

Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic's Effects From Above

Apr 9, 2020 8:00 AM

MagQuest

The Search for the Next Big Idea in Magnetic Field Mapping

Mar 31, 2020 10:00 AM

Backchannel

How UFO Sightings Became an American Obsession

Mar 3, 2020 7:00 AM

Earthlings

Astronomy Expands Its Scope From the Heavens to Humans

Feb 24, 2020 8:00 AM

Little Green Men

What Scientists Can Learn From Alien Hunters

Feb 10, 2020 7:00 AM

Spaced Out

Now Entering Orbit: Tiny Lego-like Modular Satellites

Dec 29, 2019 8:00 AM