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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.

Dragon

A SpaceX Delivery Capsule May Be Contaminating the ISS

Dec 5, 2018 7:00 AM

touchdown

The View From the Control Room: How InSight Landed on Mars

Nov 26, 2018 8:29 PM

astronomy

Cosmology Is in Crisis Over How to Measure the Universe

Nov 20, 2018 10:58 AM

spycraft

New Satellites Can Use Radio Waves to Track Hidden Objects

Nov 7, 2018 8:00 AM

history

Fusty Ol' Scientific Texts Get a Gorgeous, Pricey Makeover

Oct 19, 2018 10:00 AM

machine learning

These New Tricks Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos—for Now

Oct 17, 2018 7:00 AM

Space Travel

Everyone Wants to Go to the Moon Again—Logic Be Damned

Sep 26, 2018 3:05 PM

Telescopes

The Strange, Sad Case of Sunspot, the Empty Astronomy Town

Sep 24, 2018 10:00 AM

WIRED@25

E.T. Hunters Join Forces to Probe the Heavens

Sep 18, 2018 6:00 AM

Space War

New Space Robots Will Fix Satellites, or Maybe Destroy Them

Sep 10, 2018 8:00 AM

Starry Eyed

America’s Spaceport Boom Is Outpacing the Need to Go to Space

Sep 5, 2018 8:00 AM

Astronomy

Will China’s Tourism Threaten the World’s Largest Telescope?

Aug 26, 2018 7:00 AM

Space

How NASA Built a Shark Tank for Space Inventions

Aug 23, 2018 7:00 AM

Observations

The Rebirth of Radio Astronomy

Aug 22, 2018 1:08 PM

Physics

This Bomb-Simulating US Supercomputer Broke a World Record

Jul 23, 2018 7:00 AM

How a Team of Experts Quelled Colorado's Enormous Spring Fire

Jul 20, 2018 1:29 PM

Space

How Does NASA Test For Spacecraft Safety? Brutalize a Replica

Jul 12, 2018 7:00 AM

Space

Never Prebook Your Return Flight From a Rocket Launch

Jul 6, 2018 7:00 AM

Cimon Says

The Floating Robot With an IBM Brain Is Headed to Space

Jun 28, 2018 8:17 PM

Space

It's Business Time for Rocket Lab, Launcher of Small Satellites

Jun 22, 2018 8:00 AM