The New York Times
"Nuclear War Could End the World, but What if It’s All in Our Heads?" August 21, 2023
"Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down," June 9, 2023
"NASA Spacecraft Accomplishes Mission and Smashes Asteroid Into New Orbit," October 11, 2022
"To Prevent a Martian Plague, Scientists Have to Build a Very Special Lab," August 31, 2022
"Your Bosses Could Have a File on You, and They May Misinterpret It," May 17, 2022
"You Don't Need a Spaceship to Grow Weird Little Martian Radishes," December 28, 2021
"The Doctor from Nazi Germany and the Search for Life on Mars," July 24, 2020
The Verge
"Meet the US's Spy System of the Future. It's 'Sentient,'" July 31, 2019
Grid
"Spies' Night Eyes," May 23, 2022
Undark
"Book Review: Launching Capitalism into Space," June 15, 2023
"Book Review: How Light Pollution Is Upending the Natural World," February 17, 2023
"Earth's Orbit is about to Get More Crowded," December 26, 2022
"In Colorado, Locals Question a Survey for Critical Minerals," November 8, 2021
"The Mirage of a Town without Cell Phones," October 10, 2021
"In China, a Telescope Offers Cosmic Data Amid Earthly Tensions," April 13, 2021
"NASA Should Be Friendly to the Press. Lately, It's Not," September 20, 2017
Coda Story
"How 19th Century Silver Mines Could Supercharge the US Green Energy Economy," April 19, 2023
"The Future Home of the World’s Most Dangerous Pathogens," December 5, 2022
Physics Today
"Plutonium Production for NASA Carries Avoidable Risk, Safety Panel Says," April 20, 2023
"The Forgotten History of Radiometric Dating," November 4, 2022
"ARPA-E Program Brings Diagnostics to Fusion Companies," March 16, 2022
"Companies and Government Agencies Propose Nuclear Reactors for Space," May 28, 2021
"US Continues Push to Restart Pit Production," March 5, 2021
"A Model to Detect Explosions Big and Small," August 4, 2020
"Hubble's Blurry Years," April 1, 2020
"Navigating a Career in Secret Physics," November 7, 2019
Scientific American
"Will Scientists Ever Find a Theory of Everything?" August 19, 2023
"I Survived a Weekend at Biosphere 2," July 10, 2023
"Is Time Travel Possible?" April 26, 2023
"New Exascale Supercomputer Can Do a Quintillion Calculations a Second," February 9, 2023
"The Search for Life as We Don't Know it," February 2023
"NASA's UFO Study Isn't Really Looking for Space Aliens," August 15, 2022
"Radioactive Material is Basically Everywhere, and that's a Problem," March 11, 2022
"Nuclear Testing Downwinders Speak about History and Fear," January 27, 2022
"Are We Doing Enough to Protect Earth from Asteroids?" June 2021
"Space Alien Research Could Get Its First Grad Program," November 18, 2019
"The Good Kind of Crazy," August 2019
"Physicists Go Deep in Search of Dark Matter," July 11, 2017
"The World's Largest Radio Telescope Faces Uncertain Future," June 6, 2016
"NASA Considers Its Next Flagship Telescope," March 30, 2016
Science
"Trust but Verify," April 21, 2023
"Prime Mover," August 11, 2022
"A Rocket-Launching Drone Debuts," December 3, 2020
"NASA, Space Force Partner to Make Space Safe," September 22, 2020
"US Air Force Cadets Study Idea of Space Force Bases on Moon," July 15, 2020
"Scientists Tackle a Burning Question: When Will Our Quiet Sun Turn Violent?" May 30, 2019
"Researchers Spy Signs of Slavery from Space," February 19, 2019
Alta
"How to See a Black Hole," March 27, 2023
"The Ultimate Solar Power Plant," June 29, 2022
Atlas Obscura
"What’s Really Behind the Ghost Lights of Colorado’s Silver Cliff Cemetery?" October 1, 2022
"Here Be Dragons: Meet the Radioactive Rock Collectors," May 20, 2021
WIRED
"How Landsat Tracked 50 Years of Change on a Fiery Planet," July 5, 2022
"Spotting Objects from Space is Easy. This Challenge Is Harder," June 28, 2022
"These Satellites See through Clouds to Track Flooding," June 21, 2022
"How Lost Hikers Can Send an SOS to Space," June 14, 2022
"Astronaut Gear of the Future May Fight Bone and Muscle Loss," November 9, 2021
"NASA's Lucy Mission Gets Ready to Fly by the Trojan Asteroids," July 17, 2021
"GPS III's Long Journey is Picking Up Speed," June 17, 2021
"The Space and Air Forces Launch an LGBTQ Task Force," May 28, 2021
"NASA Lands the Perseverance Rover on Mars," February 18, 2021
"There Are No Real Rules for Repairing Satellites in Space - Yet," December 10, 2020
"Neutrino Detectors Could Spot Nuclear Rogues," October 6, 2020
"Dr. Phosphine and the Possibility of Life on Venus," September 14, 2020
"The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite," August 6, 2020
"This Citizen Science Gig Pays People to Match Photos," May 26, 2020
"Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic's Effects from Above," April 9, 2020
"The Search for the Next Big Idea in Magnetic Field Mapping," March 31, 2020
"Astronomy Expands Its Scope from the Heavens to Humans," February 24, 2020
"What Scientists Can Learn from Alien Hunters," February 10, 2020
"Now Entering Orbit: Tiny Lego Satellites," December 29, 2019
"In Space, Libertarian Ideas are Thriving," December 12, 2019
"Big's Backyard Ultra and the Rise of Women Endurance Stars," October 24, 2019
"The Area 51 Raid Was the Worst Way to Spot an Alien or UFO," September 20, 2019
"Don't Storm Area 51, Begs the Webmaster of the UFO Kingdom," September 18, 2019
"How America's Spooks Seek to Spy on Distant Satellites," August 29, 2019
"Here Come the Space Tugs," August 22, 2019
"Jill Tarter Swears She'd Tell Us If She'd Seen an Alien," July 25, 2019
"The Art of Martian Medicine," June 25, 2019
"The Wired Guide to Aliens," June 5, 2019
"The Pentagon Launched Another Space Agency. Do We Need It?" May 23, 2019
"The Plan to Dodge a Killer Asteroid, Maybe Even Good Ol' Bennu," May 1, 2019
"China Finds Phone-Wielding Tourists and Telescopes Don't Mix," April 18, 2019
"Polio Is Nearly Wiped out--Unless Some Lab Tech Screws up," February 26, 2019
"Two Satellites Almost Crashed. Here's How They Dodged It," February 14, 2019
"You Can Join the Search for Killer Asteroids," February 7, 2019
"Guide to Commercial Human Spaceflight," January 31, 2019
"Space Billboards Are Just the Latest Orbital Stunt," January 18, 2019
"A Strange Kind of Data Tracks the Weather--and Pirate Ships," January 11, 2019
"To Clean up Space Junk, Grab a Net and a Harpoon," December 11, 2018
"The SpaceX Clown Car Launch Actually Worked," December 20, 2018
"A SpaceX Delivery Capsule May Be Contaminating the ISS," December 5, 2018
"The View from the InSight Control Room," November 26, 2018
"Cosmology Is In Crisis over How to Measure the Universe," November 20, 2018
"New Satellites Will Use Radio Waves to Spy on Ships and Planes," November 7, 2018
"Remaking Old Scientific Texts," October 19, 2018
"How to Outsmart Deepfake Videos, For Now," October 17, 2018
"Everyone wants to go to the Moon Again," September 26, 2018
"The Strange, Sad Case of Sunspot, the Empty Astronomy Town," September 24, 2018
"New Space Robots Will Fix Satellites, or Maybe Destroy Them," September 10, 2018
"America's Spaceport Boom Is Outpacing the Need to Go to Space," September 5, 2018
"China Built the World's Largest Telescope. Then Came the Tourists," August 26, 2018
"How NASA Built a Shark Tank for Space Inventions," August 23, 2018
"The Rebirth of Radio Astronomy," August 22, 2018
"This Bomb-Simulating US Supercomputer Just Broke a World Record," July 23, 2018
"How a Team of Experts Quelled Colorado's Enormous Spring Fire," July 20, 2018
"How Does NASA Test for Spacecraft Safety? Brutalize a Replica," July 12, 2018
"Never Prebook Your Return Flight from a Rocket Launch," July 6, 2018
"The Floating Robot with an IBM Brain is Headed to Space," June 28, 2018
"It's Business Time for Rocket Lab," June 22, 2018
"NASA's New Plan: Do More Science with Smallsats," June 21, 2018
"Space Really Does Need Traffic Cops," June 19, 2018
"Arecibo Observatory is Still Recovering from Hurricane Maria," June 15, 2018
"How a Uranium Hunter Sniffs out Nuclear Weapons," June 11, 2018
"Cosmic Ray Showers Crash Computers. Here's What to Do about It," June 4, 2018
"Why DARPA Wants Everyone to Launch Little Rockets," May 30, 2018
"The Japanese Space Bots That Could Build Moon Valley," May 14, 2018
"The Trucking Company that Keeps Spacecraft Safe on the Interstate," May 2, 2018
"What Happens When Science Just Disappears?" April 25, 2018
"The Case of the Evaporating Exoplanets," April 12, 2018
"The Woman Who Knows Everything about the Universe," April 4, 2018
"Big Ag Wants Farmers to Buy into Satellite Imagery," March 20, 2018
"Maybe Nobody Wants Your Space Internet," March 15, 2018
"How Fast Can Gravitational Wave Detection Get?" March 9, 2018
"Spoof, Jam, Destroy: Why We Need a Backup for GPS," March 2, 2018
"Inside Robert Bigelow's Decades-Long Obsession with UFOs," February 24, 2018
"What Is up with Those Pentagon UFO Videos?" February 17, 2018
"China and Luxembourg Strike a Space Deal," February 14, 2018
"How the Government Controls Sensitive Satellite Data," February 8, 2018
"How Smallsats Could Make a Big Difference for NASA and NOAA," January 23, 2018
"The Little Rocket That Could Sends Real Satellites to Space," January 20, 2018
"What Happens Now? Studies of Sexual Harassment Show the Way," December 27, 2017
"To Fix the Space Junk Problem, Add a Self-Destruct Module," December 12, 2017
"Want to Learn How to Mine in Space? There's a School for You," November 30, 2017
"What Good Is a Supercomputer If It Can't Show Off," November 26, 2017
"A Conversation about Race and Gender in Andy Weir's Artemis," November 22, 2017
"Yuri Milner and the Fellowship of Silicon Valley Science Influencers," November 10, 2017
"Green Bank Observatory Embraces Its Alien-Hunting Future," November 6, 2017
"How AI Could (Really) Enhance Images from Space," October 31, 2017
"Meet the Geek Who Tracks Rogue Satellites with Coat Hangers," October 13, 2017
"The Rochester Sexual Harassment Case is Complicated--And That's the Point," September 28, 2017
"Dream Chaser Spacecraft Hitches a Ride with a Helicopter," August 30, 2017
"High-Res Satellites Want to Track Human Activity from Space," August 28, 2017
"NASA's Rocket to Nowhere Finally Has a Destination," August 17, 2017
"Buried in a Gold Mine, an Accelerator Searches for Stellar Secrets," August 11, 2017
"The Plan to End Science's Sexist Manel Problem," July 31, 2017
"The Space Junk Problem Is about to Get a Whole Lot Gnarlier," July 31, 2017
"Luxembourg's New Law Lets Space Miners Keep Their Plunder," July 26, 2017
"Meet the Woman Trying to Prepare Your Town for the Eclipse," July 21, 2017
"Jill Tarter Never Found Aliens, But Her Successors Might," July 4, 2017
"Your Connected Devices are Screwing up Astronomy," June 29, 2017
"The Unknown Startups Fueling Aerospace with Fancy Tech," June 13, 2017
"SpaceX Wants to Launch Thousands of Satellites. What on Earth For?," June 8, 2017
"For Modern Astronomers, It's Learn to Code or Get Left Behind," May 26, 2017
"The Best Way to Transmit Satellite Data? In a Truck. Really," May 17, 2017
"A Rare Journey into the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station," May 3, 2017
"An Aerospace Coder Drags a Stodgy Industry Toward Open Source," April 24, 2017
"Russia's Quest to Build a Space Empire--Or Go Broke Trying," April 9, 2017
"Why You Should Put Your Supercomputer in Wyoming ," March 31, 2017
"The Race to Rule the High-Flying Business of Satellite Imagery," March 28, 2017
"Astronomers Don't Point This Telescope. It Points Them," March 23, 2017
"Upending the Space Biz with Satellites for You and You and You," March 10, 2017
"Astronomers Deploy AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe," March 5, 2017
"Inside the Extreme Machine That Mimics Bombs and Black Holes," February 24, 2017
"88 Tiny Satellites Will Watch Earth, All the Time, All the Places," February 14, 2017
"Earth's Best Defense Against Killer Asteroids Needs Cash," February 9, 2017
"The Birth--and Possible Death--of the SAGE Atmospheric Satellite," January 26, 2017
"Asteroid Mining Sounds Hard, Right? You Don't Know the Half of it," January 23, 2017
"Luxembourg's Bid to Become the Silicon Valley of Space Mining," January 10, 2017
"The Mystery of Astronomy's Fast Radio Bursts Only Gets More Beautiful from Here," January 5, 2016
"Month by Month, 2016 Cemented Science's Harassment Problem," December 29, 2016
"John Glenn, the First American to Orbit Earth, is Dead at 95," December 8, 2016
"NASA's ISS Power Supply Mistake Was Totally Avoidable," December 8, 2016
"How One Composer Turns Science into Serious Drama," December 5, 2016
"How Breakthrough Listen Could Miss ET's Call," November 17, 2016
"How NASA Will Choose Astronauts for Its Journey to Mars," November 9, 2016
"A Material from Shapeshifting Planes Could Heal Human Flesh," November 3, 2016
"Molten Salt Reactors Could Soon Help Power Earth, and One Day Mars," October 28, 2016
"Dwarf Planets Aren't Big News Anymore Because Astronomy Is Doing a Great Job," October 18, 2016
"When an Observatory Goes Rogue," October 7, 2016
"A New Generation of Astronomers Is on the Hunt for the Next Earth," October 3, 2016
"What Gives with So Many Hard Scientists Being Hardcore Endurance Runners?" September 21, 2016
"How a Champion Powerlifter Became an Astronaut Guinea Pig," September 22, 2016
"How Space Scientists turn Exoplanets into Places," September 12, 2016
"Stash These F-22s for Us?" September 9, 2016
"Yes, Rockets Blow up Sometimes. The OSIRIS-REx Team Isn't Sweating It," September 6, 2016
"Astronomers Don't Think That SETI Signal Is Aliens, and Neither Should You," September 2, 2016
"The Psychology behind the Excitement about Proxima Centauri b," August 26, 2016
"Aliens in Orbit? Probably Not. $100K on a Kickstarter to Check? Oh, sure," August 23, 2016
"How to Succeed in the Asteroid Business without Really Mining," August 18, 2016
"The Rogue Blogger Who Keeps Spoiling Physics' Biggest News," August 5, 2016
"How Queer Scientists Are Shaping Their Future with a Survey," July 26, 2016
"Collecting Space Memorabilia Can Be Cheaper Than You Think," July 20, 2016
"What Happens When a Harassment Whistleblower Goes on the Job Market," July 17, 2016
"Meet the Guy Who Left the SETI Institute to Talk to Aliens," July 15, 2016
"So You Think You Love Earth? Wait Till You See It in VR," June 21, 2016
"The Unknown Lab of Millennials Fast-Tracking NASA's missions," June 10, 2016
"How a Physicist Who Helped Find the Higgs Boson Got into Horse Apps," May 25, 2016
"A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape the Future of Open Science," May 10, 2016
"Ace Rocketeers Swear They'll Put Inflatable Space Stations in Orbit, and Soon," April 11, 2016
"The Mojo Formation Flying Pilots of Mojave," April 8, 2016
"NASA Is Finally Sending a Hotel Magnate's Inflatable Habitat to the ISS," April 4, 2016
"He Drew the Sun for 40 Years, and Now His Telescope Is Dying," April 1 (but not a joke), 2016
"Tantalizing Data from the LHC Has Physicists Psyched," March 16, 2016
"LIGO's First-Ever Detection of Gravitational Waves," February 11, 2016
"Astronomers May Have Found Gravitational Waves. Or Not," January 13, 2016
Popular Science
"This communications company is a lifeline for far-flung operators," August 2023
"An enormous radio telescope may soon be a powerful tool for planetary defense," July 2023
"Inside Blue Abyss’ plan to build super-deep pools for astronauts and military bots," June 2023
"Inside the little-known group that knows where toxic clouds will blow," May 2023
"This online atlas is a goldmine for amateur intelligence sleuths," April 13, 2023
"A DIY-rocket club’s risky dream of launching a human to the edge of space," Spring 2023
"These 3D printed engines can power space-bound rockets—or hypersonic weapons," March 16, 2023
"How a video game could help us better understand nuclear war," February 16, 2023
"How a US intelligence program created a team of Superforecasters,"January 19, 2023
"An Inside Look at the Radiation-Sensing Material that’s on the Pentagon’s Radar," December 1, 2022
"Alien-looking Balloons Might be the Next Weapon in the Fight against Wildfires," Winter 2022
"This former stunt double wants to kick on-set concussions to the curb," Fall 2022
"Can These Government Efforts Crack the Code for DNA Storage?," September 29, 2022
"Ball Corp's Unlikely Journey from Soda Cans to Satellites," Summer 2022
"What New Insights about Our First Nuclear Test Reveal about the Future of War," April 26, 2022
"Cave Worms Could Hold the Secret to a Better Life," Spring 2022
"There Is No Planet B," December 21, 2021
"Want Ethical AI? Hand the Keys to Middle-Schoolers," Fall 2021
"UFO Conspiracies Can Be More Dangerous Than You Think," July 8, 2021
"An American Tail," Summer 2021
"The Dimmer Switch," Spring 2021
"The Hunt for a Crashed CIA Spyplane," January 5, 2020
"On Surviving - and Leaving - Prison during a Pandemic," Winter 2020
"What Happens When Psychedelics Make You See God?" Fall 2020
"Hell? Yes!" Summer 2020
"Meet the GEOINT Singularity," Spring 2020
"Hidden Hearing Loss," Winter 2019
"The Astronaut Diaries," Fall 2019
"Rise of the Plastic Eaters," Summer 2019
"The Last Mile," Spring 2019
"Alarm Will Sound," Winter 2018
"Shamu Dreams of Europa," Fall 2018
"Franck Marchis is Connecting Amateur Astronomers to Extraterrestrial Researchers," Fall 2018
"NASA is Learning the Best Way to Grow Food in Space," Summer 2018
"Space Weather Woman," January/February 2018
"How Jill Tarter Helped Bring SETI's Alien-Seeking Allen Telescope Array to Life," July 4, 2017
"Could This Team of Scientists Prove Cloud-Seeding Really Works?," July/August 2017
"I Spent a Week Exploring How We'll Live in Post-Water America," March/April 2017
"The Space Industry Collides with a Tiny Town," October 20, 2015
"How to Build an Energy-Efficient House on a Budget," October 21, 2015
"Welcome to Your Future Energy-Efficient House," October 19, 2015
"How We'll Get from Los Angeles to Tokyo in 30 minutes: Q&A with Dick Rutan," September 2015
"The Future of the Internet, According to its Father: Q&A with Vint Cerf," July 2015
"Looking for Dark Matter under a Mountain," June 2015
"Is It Time to Phone ET?" May 2015
"Four Ways Spacefaring Microbes Could Muck up the Solar System," January 2015
"Earth Phones ET: Q&A with Jill Tarter," September 2014
"Wildfires in Northern California Threaten the Search for Alien Life," August 2014
Motherboard
"How (and Why) the FBI Mysteriously Shut Down a Federal Solar Observatory," September 21, 2022
"This Company Will Use Satellites and AI to Look for UFOs," February 26, 2020
"Inside Lockheed Martin's New Facility for Simulating Space Wars," September 17, 2019
"Inside the Government's Quantum Computing Summer School," July 25, 2019
"When Should a Drug's Side Effects Count As a Disability?," September 11, 2017
"Mallory Ortberg's Internet," June 13, 2017
"Katie Mack and the Social Media Path to Science Celebrity," April 10, 2017
"Meditating on the World's Most Powerful Rocket Booster," June 30, 2016
"The People Who Believe Electricity Rules the Universe," February 18, 2016
"The Spaceship Engineers Who Build Their Own Planes," November 5, 2015
"The Would-Be Astronaut," July 24, 2015
OneZero
"The Military is Funding Ethicists to Keep Its Brain Enhancement Experiments in Check," March 31, 2021
"How Do We Know If a Virus is Engineered?" August 5, 2020
"The Tech Entrepreneur Who Thinks He Can Reverse Climate Change with Nuclear Power," February 20, 2020
Leapsmag
"How a DARPA Scientist Helped Usher in a Gamechanging COVID-19 Treatment," February 4, 2021
"Meet the Scientists on the Front Lines of Protecting Humanity from a Man-Made Pathogen," April 30, 2020
"Scientists Are Building an AccuWeather for Germs," October 18, 2019
Wyoming Truth
"How the Wyoming State Geological Survey Helps Residents," April 21, 2023
"Scientist Brings NASA’s Work to the West," March 29, 2023
"Mormonland," Parts 1 and 2, February 2023
"UW Community Health Researcher Pursues Food Justice and Security," November 25, 2022
"University of Wyoming Professor Educates the Next Generation about the Legal Side of Energy and the Environment," November 4, 2022
"The Looming Revival of Wyoming’s Uranium Mining for Nuclear Power," November 2, 2022
Bitterroot
"A Denver-Area Town Already Spying from Orbit Is Ready For Space Command," December 6, 2019
"Climate Change Is Ruining Skiing. Aspen Is Fighting Back," October 4, 2019
"Amid Marches, 500 Women Scientists Is Diversifying the Climate Movement," September 20, 2019
"A Utah Researcher Seeks to Understand the West's Suicide Mysteries," July 26, 2019
"Religion for the People: Ex-Mormons Embrace Populism," April 19, 2019
5280
"Inside Colorado's Last Lesbian Bar," December 2021
"Comic Relief," June 2020
Quartz
"NASA scientists have created a framework to ask if alien life exists," December 2, 2021
"MIT Researchers Are Building an Instrument to Study Genetics on Mars," December 2, 2019
CPR/Denverite
"Workers Carry the Burden of Colorado's Food Supply Chain," May 3, 2020
"How to Have Fun in Denver During Social Distancing," March 19, 2020
"Colorado's Getting a Spaceport! To Go with Its Massive Military-Focused Space Industry!" March 19, 2019
Wilson Quarterly
"The Rocket Woman and the Smallsat Invasion," Winter 2019
Air&Space
"Keepers of the Lost Wreck," June 2019
"Coffee, Tea, or Emergency?" April 2019
"Jill Tarter Believes," (excerpt from Making Contact), August 2017
"Elliot and Justin's DIY Jet," June 2017
Pacific Standard
"Shari Steele on Digital Privacy and Tackling Harassment at Tor," January 22, 2019
"The New Normal," March/April 2017
Longreads
"Meet the New Mormons," June 7, 2018
them.
"20 Years after Matthew Shepard's Death, Wyoming is Recruiting Queers," June 13, 2018
Outside
"The Harassment Problem in Scientific Dream Jobs," May 24, 2018
NOVA
"Astronomical Anthropology and the Search for the Earth Beyond Earth," May 9, 2018
"How Landowners Helped Save the Rogue," April 4, 2018
"NASA May Have to Break Its Own Radiation Rules to Go To Mars," April 12, 2017
"What Does Beauty Have to Do with Physics?" June 1, 2016
"Physics in 1 Trillion Years," February 17, 2016
"The B-mode Story You Haven't Heard," October 28, 2015
"How Big a Deal was Stephen Hawking's Big Announcement?" September 2, 2015
High Country News
"What Happens When the Church Comes for Your Kids?" May 1, 2017
KQED
"Feds Reluctant to Fund ET Search, Says 'Contact' Scientist in New Book," (excerpt from Making Contact), July 19, 2017
The Atlantic
"The UFO Trap," June 25, 2021
"Space Travel's Existential Question," October 8, 2017
"A Brief History of SETI@Home," May 23, 2017
"We Need a New Word for Infinite Spaces," February 25, 2016
"Astronomers are Finally Doing Something about Sexual Harassment," January 6, 2016
"A Murder at the American Physical Society," September 29, 2015
"Watching the Universe in Real Time," February 11, 2015
The Washington Post
"Weeki Wachee Mermaids Swim Underwater for 30 Minutes at a Time," June 18, 2018
"The First Female Shuttle Commander Is Speaking at the GOP Convention. Huh?" July 15, 2016
COSMOS
"Underground Detective Reveals Secrets of Stalagmites," January 2016
Nautilus
"The Hidden Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves," July 21, 2016
"The Strange Blissfulness of Storms," June 2, 2016
Smithsonian
"Can Physicists Ever Prove the Multiverse Exists?" April 20, 2016
"Caves Can Now Help Scientists Trace Ancient Wildfires," March 21, 2016
"Martian Cauliflower Could Be Latest Hint of Alien Life," February 1, 2016
Discover
"The Lonely Universe," December 2020
"Is Planet Nine Still out There?" September/October 2019
"Everything Worth Knowing about Pulsars," July/August 2019
"Are Humans or Robots Better Suited to Space Exploration?" April 2019
"The First Black Hole Close-up," April 2018
"Cassini Is Dead; Long Live Cassini," December 2017
"Eclipse 2017: Mind Melt," September 2017
"Everything Worth Knowing about Alien Contact," July 2017
"World Weary? The Best is Yet to Come," April 2017
"To Jupiter, Sans Nuclear," December 2016
"Journey Through the Center of the Earth," November 2016
"Do Big Extinctions Come Like Clockwork--From Space?" September 2016
"Earth's Magnetic Field--Old or Very Old?" July/August 2016
"Everything Worth Knowing about Black Holes," July/August 2016
"When Dawn Met Ceres," Top 100 Stories of 2015, Jan/Feb 2016
"Billionaire Backs Search for Aliens," Top 100 Stories of 2015, Jan/Feb 2016
"Rosetta Reveals the Heart of a Comet," Top 100 Stories of 2015, Jan/Feb 2016
"Organic Molecule Solves Space Mystery," Top 100 Stories of 2015, Jan/Feb 2016
"Medium-Size Black Hole is Just Right," December 2015
"How You--Yes, You--Can Go to Space," October 2015
"Capturing the First Interstellar Travelers," October 2015
"Earth's Worst Days," July/August 2015
"World's First Visual Microphone Extracts Sound from Movement," Top 100 Stories of 2014, January/February 2015
"The Lives of Galaxies," Top 100 Stories of 2014, January/February 2015
"A Skype Session from Mars," November 2014
"I'm Not a Narcissist: I'm Just the Best," November 2014
"Designing a Sexier Spacesuit," October 2014
“Supernova’s Shocking Second Act,” May 2014
“Our Black Hole Lights up,” Top 100 Stories of 2013, January/February 2014
“Baby Pictures of the Cosmos in HD,” Top 100 Stories of 2013, January/February 2014
“The Secret Origins of Cosmic Rays,” Top 100 Stories of 2013, January/February 2014
STAT
"This drug could be the universal snakebite antidote the world desperately needs," March 11, 2016
Slate
"Why Would the Government Lie about Aliens?" February 29, 2020
"The Year UFOs Became a Little More Legit," December 30, 2019
"A Digital Twin Could Become a Critical Part of Your Health Care," February 10, 2016
"The Search for a Universal Snakebite Antidote," January 11, 2016
"20 Women on What It's Like to be Lesbian and Ex-Mormon," January 4, 2016
"An Honest Biography of Sally Ride," October 6, 2015
"Mount Shasta: Where Seekers and Spiritualists Converge," July 23, 2015
"Obsessed with Finding Earth's Twin," December 11, 2014
Hakai
"A New Treatment Could Save Sea Lions from Deadly Algae," November 19, 2015
"Peace: That Ship Has Sailed," September 23, 2015
Aeon
"How Thinking about Infinity Changes Kids' Brains," March 9, 2016
"Does Earth have a shadow biosphere?" July 2015
"What our messages to ET say about us," January 2015
"Galactic positioning system," May 2014
The Guardian (US)
"As We Begin to Think of Exoplanets as Real Places We Can Visit, We Will Want to Go," March 20, 2015
Discover online
"Why Do We Even Wear Pants?" January 9, 2018
"How GMOs Will Help Humans Live on Mars," December 18, 2015
"Taming the New Frontiers in Gene Editing," November 17, 2015
"I Sent a Sample of My Poop to uBiome. Here's What I Found out," October 7, 2015
"How Astronomers Will Find Earth 2.0," July 16, 2015
"The 10 Weirdest Objects in the Universe," June 1, 2015
"Why Astronomers Will Hate the Internet of Things," May 13, 2015
"Liquid Water Could Be Just Beneath the Surface on Mars," April 13, 2015
"Six Things Facebook (Thinks It) Knows about Your Love Life," March 20, 2015
"NASA's Dawn Arrives at Ceres," March 7, 2015
"Math Explains Why All Hipsters Look the Same," March 5, 2015
"Oops! 8 Discoveries Astronomers Didn't Mean to Make," February 10, 2015
"Astronomers Spot a Supernova in the Making," February 9, 2015
"The Demise of a Discovery: BICEP2 and Gravitational Waves," February 2, 2015
"Rosetta Reveals Ice, Dunes, and Rocky Cliffs on Comet 67P," January 22, 2015
"Seven Facts about the Bizarre Double-Star System Eta Carinae," January 12, 2015
"The 'Pillars of Creation' Have Been, Are Being, and Will Be Destroyed," January 6, 2015
"If Mars Once Hosted Life, How Would We Know?" November 5, 2014
"Mistaken Identity Explains how G2 Survived a Black Hole," November 4, 2014
"What It Will Take to Become an Interstellar Civilization," October 28, 2014
"The Tale of a Vintage Spacecraft That'll Never Make it Home," July 10, 2014
“Seven Things You Didn’t Know about Rosetta,” January 21, 2014
“How a New Type of Astronomy Investigates the Most Mysterious Objects in the Universe,” January 6, 2014
“Did Voyager 1 Leave the Solar System or Not?” March 20, 2013
New Scientist
"These Mysterious Flaring Objects Could be a New Phenomenon," October 20, 2016
"Long-Term View of Extreme Cosmic Burst Challenges Astronomers," March 31, 2016
"Star Clusters Could Host Long-Lived Civilizations," January 6, 2015
"Black Hole Batteries Could Power Mysterious Radio Bursts," November 23, 2015
"Crowdsourcing Works Best if Some Don't Help," September 16, 2015
"Earth's Composition Might be Unusual for a Planet with Life," September 15, 2015
"Black Holes May Be Brick Walls that Bounce Information Back Out," September 11, 2015
"Neptune's Sudden Jolt Could Explain Weird Ring in Kuiper Belt," July 29, 2015
"Misbehaving Pulsar's Sudden Slow-Down May Teach Us how They Tick," June 27, 2015
"Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole is a Cool Neighborhood for Ice," June 26, 2015
"Dust from Asteroid Mining Spells Danger for Satellites," May 27, 2015
"Stars Throw out a Lifetime's Carbon Waste in Just 1,000 Years," April 21, 2015
"Six Questions about Strange Cosmic Radio Bursts," April 2, 2015
"Is this ET? Mystery of Strange Radio Bursts from Space," March 30, 2015
"Volleyballene Puts a New Spin on Buckyballs," February 26, 2015
"How Low Do They Go? Meteors, That Is," February 18, 2015
"Solo Supernovae Challenge Cosmic Distance Standards," January 28, 2015
Singularity Hub
"Can You Own Part of an Asteroid?" December 9, 2015
"Russia and Europe Want a Moon Colony—Why Is NASA So Focused on Mars?" November 25, 2015
"Want Your Own Personal Satellite? Reaching Space Is Becoming (Relatively) Cheap," November 6, 2015
"Is Life Swimming the Vast Oceans on Outer Solar System Moons? Here's How We'll Find Out," October 13. 2015
"Five Missions That Will Stop an Asteroid Hitting Earth," October 9. 2015
"Who Will Become the First Martian?" October 1, 2015
"What Water on Mars Means for the Future of Space Exploration," September 29, 2015
Astronomy
"Incredible Stories from Space (Robots)," March 2, 2017
"The Virgo Supercluster, Our 100,000 Closest Galaxies," December 2015
"Where is astronomy going?" September 2014
“Exploring the biggest asteroids,” March 2014
“Curiosity’s latest findings on Mars,” January 2014
“A field trip to the stratosphere,” November 2013
“The 40 greatest mysteries of the universe,” August 2013
Other
Smaller Questions (co-founder, blogger 2011-2013)
"Sarah Scoles on Doodles+Communicating Science to the Public: The Bigger Picture," Speaking Up for Us: Midpoint Series, April 2012
"The Drake Equation: 50 Years of Giving Direction to the Scientific Search for Life Beyond Earth," Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Universe in the Classroom, Winter 2011
"Nuclear War Could End the World, but What if It’s All in Our Heads?" August 21, 2023
"Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down," June 9, 2023
"NASA Spacecraft Accomplishes Mission and Smashes Asteroid Into New Orbit," October 11, 2022
"To Prevent a Martian Plague, Scientists Have to Build a Very Special Lab," August 31, 2022
"Your Bosses Could Have a File on You, and They May Misinterpret It," May 17, 2022
"You Don't Need a Spaceship to Grow Weird Little Martian Radishes," December 28, 2021
"The Doctor from Nazi Germany and the Search for Life on Mars," July 24, 2020
The Verge
"Meet the US's Spy System of the Future. It's 'Sentient,'" July 31, 2019
Grid
"Spies' Night Eyes," May 23, 2022
Undark
"Book Review: Launching Capitalism into Space," June 15, 2023
"Book Review: How Light Pollution Is Upending the Natural World," February 17, 2023
"Earth's Orbit is about to Get More Crowded," December 26, 2022
"In Colorado, Locals Question a Survey for Critical Minerals," November 8, 2021
"The Mirage of a Town without Cell Phones," October 10, 2021
"In China, a Telescope Offers Cosmic Data Amid Earthly Tensions," April 13, 2021
"NASA Should Be Friendly to the Press. Lately, It's Not," September 20, 2017
Coda Story
"How 19th Century Silver Mines Could Supercharge the US Green Energy Economy," April 19, 2023
"The Future Home of the World’s Most Dangerous Pathogens," December 5, 2022
Physics Today
"Plutonium Production for NASA Carries Avoidable Risk, Safety Panel Says," April 20, 2023
"The Forgotten History of Radiometric Dating," November 4, 2022
"ARPA-E Program Brings Diagnostics to Fusion Companies," March 16, 2022
"Companies and Government Agencies Propose Nuclear Reactors for Space," May 28, 2021
"US Continues Push to Restart Pit Production," March 5, 2021
"A Model to Detect Explosions Big and Small," August 4, 2020
"Hubble's Blurry Years," April 1, 2020
"Navigating a Career in Secret Physics," November 7, 2019
Scientific American
"Will Scientists Ever Find a Theory of Everything?" August 19, 2023
"I Survived a Weekend at Biosphere 2," July 10, 2023
"Is Time Travel Possible?" April 26, 2023
"New Exascale Supercomputer Can Do a Quintillion Calculations a Second," February 9, 2023
"The Search for Life as We Don't Know it," February 2023
"NASA's UFO Study Isn't Really Looking for Space Aliens," August 15, 2022
"Radioactive Material is Basically Everywhere, and that's a Problem," March 11, 2022
"Nuclear Testing Downwinders Speak about History and Fear," January 27, 2022
"Are We Doing Enough to Protect Earth from Asteroids?" June 2021
"Space Alien Research Could Get Its First Grad Program," November 18, 2019
"The Good Kind of Crazy," August 2019
"Physicists Go Deep in Search of Dark Matter," July 11, 2017
"The World's Largest Radio Telescope Faces Uncertain Future," June 6, 2016
"NASA Considers Its Next Flagship Telescope," March 30, 2016
Science
"Trust but Verify," April 21, 2023
"Prime Mover," August 11, 2022
"A Rocket-Launching Drone Debuts," December 3, 2020
"NASA, Space Force Partner to Make Space Safe," September 22, 2020
"US Air Force Cadets Study Idea of Space Force Bases on Moon," July 15, 2020
"Scientists Tackle a Burning Question: When Will Our Quiet Sun Turn Violent?" May 30, 2019
"Researchers Spy Signs of Slavery from Space," February 19, 2019
Alta
"How to See a Black Hole," March 27, 2023
"The Ultimate Solar Power Plant," June 29, 2022
Atlas Obscura
"What’s Really Behind the Ghost Lights of Colorado’s Silver Cliff Cemetery?" October 1, 2022
"Here Be Dragons: Meet the Radioactive Rock Collectors," May 20, 2021
WIRED
"How Landsat Tracked 50 Years of Change on a Fiery Planet," July 5, 2022
"Spotting Objects from Space is Easy. This Challenge Is Harder," June 28, 2022
"These Satellites See through Clouds to Track Flooding," June 21, 2022
"How Lost Hikers Can Send an SOS to Space," June 14, 2022
"Astronaut Gear of the Future May Fight Bone and Muscle Loss," November 9, 2021
"NASA's Lucy Mission Gets Ready to Fly by the Trojan Asteroids," July 17, 2021
"GPS III's Long Journey is Picking Up Speed," June 17, 2021
"The Space and Air Forces Launch an LGBTQ Task Force," May 28, 2021
"NASA Lands the Perseverance Rover on Mars," February 18, 2021
"There Are No Real Rules for Repairing Satellites in Space - Yet," December 10, 2020
"Neutrino Detectors Could Spot Nuclear Rogues," October 6, 2020
"Dr. Phosphine and the Possibility of Life on Venus," September 14, 2020
"The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite," August 6, 2020
"This Citizen Science Gig Pays People to Match Photos," May 26, 2020
"Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic's Effects from Above," April 9, 2020
"The Search for the Next Big Idea in Magnetic Field Mapping," March 31, 2020
"Astronomy Expands Its Scope from the Heavens to Humans," February 24, 2020
"What Scientists Can Learn from Alien Hunters," February 10, 2020
"Now Entering Orbit: Tiny Lego Satellites," December 29, 2019
"In Space, Libertarian Ideas are Thriving," December 12, 2019
"Big's Backyard Ultra and the Rise of Women Endurance Stars," October 24, 2019
"The Area 51 Raid Was the Worst Way to Spot an Alien or UFO," September 20, 2019
"Don't Storm Area 51, Begs the Webmaster of the UFO Kingdom," September 18, 2019
"How America's Spooks Seek to Spy on Distant Satellites," August 29, 2019
"Here Come the Space Tugs," August 22, 2019
"Jill Tarter Swears She'd Tell Us If She'd Seen an Alien," July 25, 2019
"The Art of Martian Medicine," June 25, 2019
"The Wired Guide to Aliens," June 5, 2019
"The Pentagon Launched Another Space Agency. Do We Need It?" May 23, 2019
"The Plan to Dodge a Killer Asteroid, Maybe Even Good Ol' Bennu," May 1, 2019
"China Finds Phone-Wielding Tourists and Telescopes Don't Mix," April 18, 2019
"Polio Is Nearly Wiped out--Unless Some Lab Tech Screws up," February 26, 2019
"Two Satellites Almost Crashed. Here's How They Dodged It," February 14, 2019
"You Can Join the Search for Killer Asteroids," February 7, 2019
"Guide to Commercial Human Spaceflight," January 31, 2019
"Space Billboards Are Just the Latest Orbital Stunt," January 18, 2019
"A Strange Kind of Data Tracks the Weather--and Pirate Ships," January 11, 2019
"To Clean up Space Junk, Grab a Net and a Harpoon," December 11, 2018
"The SpaceX Clown Car Launch Actually Worked," December 20, 2018
"A SpaceX Delivery Capsule May Be Contaminating the ISS," December 5, 2018
"The View from the InSight Control Room," November 26, 2018
"Cosmology Is In Crisis over How to Measure the Universe," November 20, 2018
"New Satellites Will Use Radio Waves to Spy on Ships and Planes," November 7, 2018
"Remaking Old Scientific Texts," October 19, 2018
"How to Outsmart Deepfake Videos, For Now," October 17, 2018
"Everyone wants to go to the Moon Again," September 26, 2018
"The Strange, Sad Case of Sunspot, the Empty Astronomy Town," September 24, 2018
"New Space Robots Will Fix Satellites, or Maybe Destroy Them," September 10, 2018
"America's Spaceport Boom Is Outpacing the Need to Go to Space," September 5, 2018
"China Built the World's Largest Telescope. Then Came the Tourists," August 26, 2018
"How NASA Built a Shark Tank for Space Inventions," August 23, 2018
"The Rebirth of Radio Astronomy," August 22, 2018
"This Bomb-Simulating US Supercomputer Just Broke a World Record," July 23, 2018
"How a Team of Experts Quelled Colorado's Enormous Spring Fire," July 20, 2018
"How Does NASA Test for Spacecraft Safety? Brutalize a Replica," July 12, 2018
"Never Prebook Your Return Flight from a Rocket Launch," July 6, 2018
"The Floating Robot with an IBM Brain is Headed to Space," June 28, 2018
"It's Business Time for Rocket Lab," June 22, 2018
"NASA's New Plan: Do More Science with Smallsats," June 21, 2018
"Space Really Does Need Traffic Cops," June 19, 2018
"Arecibo Observatory is Still Recovering from Hurricane Maria," June 15, 2018
"How a Uranium Hunter Sniffs out Nuclear Weapons," June 11, 2018
"Cosmic Ray Showers Crash Computers. Here's What to Do about It," June 4, 2018
"Why DARPA Wants Everyone to Launch Little Rockets," May 30, 2018
"The Japanese Space Bots That Could Build Moon Valley," May 14, 2018
"The Trucking Company that Keeps Spacecraft Safe on the Interstate," May 2, 2018
"What Happens When Science Just Disappears?" April 25, 2018
"The Case of the Evaporating Exoplanets," April 12, 2018
"The Woman Who Knows Everything about the Universe," April 4, 2018
"Big Ag Wants Farmers to Buy into Satellite Imagery," March 20, 2018
"Maybe Nobody Wants Your Space Internet," March 15, 2018
"How Fast Can Gravitational Wave Detection Get?" March 9, 2018
"Spoof, Jam, Destroy: Why We Need a Backup for GPS," March 2, 2018
"Inside Robert Bigelow's Decades-Long Obsession with UFOs," February 24, 2018
"What Is up with Those Pentagon UFO Videos?" February 17, 2018
"China and Luxembourg Strike a Space Deal," February 14, 2018
"How the Government Controls Sensitive Satellite Data," February 8, 2018
"How Smallsats Could Make a Big Difference for NASA and NOAA," January 23, 2018
"The Little Rocket That Could Sends Real Satellites to Space," January 20, 2018
"What Happens Now? Studies of Sexual Harassment Show the Way," December 27, 2017
"To Fix the Space Junk Problem, Add a Self-Destruct Module," December 12, 2017
"Want to Learn How to Mine in Space? There's a School for You," November 30, 2017
"What Good Is a Supercomputer If It Can't Show Off," November 26, 2017
"A Conversation about Race and Gender in Andy Weir's Artemis," November 22, 2017
"Yuri Milner and the Fellowship of Silicon Valley Science Influencers," November 10, 2017
"Green Bank Observatory Embraces Its Alien-Hunting Future," November 6, 2017
"How AI Could (Really) Enhance Images from Space," October 31, 2017
"Meet the Geek Who Tracks Rogue Satellites with Coat Hangers," October 13, 2017
"The Rochester Sexual Harassment Case is Complicated--And That's the Point," September 28, 2017
"Dream Chaser Spacecraft Hitches a Ride with a Helicopter," August 30, 2017
"High-Res Satellites Want to Track Human Activity from Space," August 28, 2017
"NASA's Rocket to Nowhere Finally Has a Destination," August 17, 2017
"Buried in a Gold Mine, an Accelerator Searches for Stellar Secrets," August 11, 2017
"The Plan to End Science's Sexist Manel Problem," July 31, 2017
"The Space Junk Problem Is about to Get a Whole Lot Gnarlier," July 31, 2017
"Luxembourg's New Law Lets Space Miners Keep Their Plunder," July 26, 2017
"Meet the Woman Trying to Prepare Your Town for the Eclipse," July 21, 2017
"Jill Tarter Never Found Aliens, But Her Successors Might," July 4, 2017
"Your Connected Devices are Screwing up Astronomy," June 29, 2017
"The Unknown Startups Fueling Aerospace with Fancy Tech," June 13, 2017
"SpaceX Wants to Launch Thousands of Satellites. What on Earth For?," June 8, 2017
"For Modern Astronomers, It's Learn to Code or Get Left Behind," May 26, 2017
"The Best Way to Transmit Satellite Data? In a Truck. Really," May 17, 2017
"A Rare Journey into the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station," May 3, 2017
"An Aerospace Coder Drags a Stodgy Industry Toward Open Source," April 24, 2017
"Russia's Quest to Build a Space Empire--Or Go Broke Trying," April 9, 2017
"Why You Should Put Your Supercomputer in Wyoming ," March 31, 2017
"The Race to Rule the High-Flying Business of Satellite Imagery," March 28, 2017
"Astronomers Don't Point This Telescope. It Points Them," March 23, 2017
"Upending the Space Biz with Satellites for You and You and You," March 10, 2017
"Astronomers Deploy AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe," March 5, 2017
"Inside the Extreme Machine That Mimics Bombs and Black Holes," February 24, 2017
"88 Tiny Satellites Will Watch Earth, All the Time, All the Places," February 14, 2017
"Earth's Best Defense Against Killer Asteroids Needs Cash," February 9, 2017
"The Birth--and Possible Death--of the SAGE Atmospheric Satellite," January 26, 2017
"Asteroid Mining Sounds Hard, Right? You Don't Know the Half of it," January 23, 2017
"Luxembourg's Bid to Become the Silicon Valley of Space Mining," January 10, 2017
"The Mystery of Astronomy's Fast Radio Bursts Only Gets More Beautiful from Here," January 5, 2016
"Month by Month, 2016 Cemented Science's Harassment Problem," December 29, 2016
"John Glenn, the First American to Orbit Earth, is Dead at 95," December 8, 2016
"NASA's ISS Power Supply Mistake Was Totally Avoidable," December 8, 2016
"How One Composer Turns Science into Serious Drama," December 5, 2016
"How Breakthrough Listen Could Miss ET's Call," November 17, 2016
"How NASA Will Choose Astronauts for Its Journey to Mars," November 9, 2016
"A Material from Shapeshifting Planes Could Heal Human Flesh," November 3, 2016
"Molten Salt Reactors Could Soon Help Power Earth, and One Day Mars," October 28, 2016
"Dwarf Planets Aren't Big News Anymore Because Astronomy Is Doing a Great Job," October 18, 2016
"When an Observatory Goes Rogue," October 7, 2016
"A New Generation of Astronomers Is on the Hunt for the Next Earth," October 3, 2016
"What Gives with So Many Hard Scientists Being Hardcore Endurance Runners?" September 21, 2016
"How a Champion Powerlifter Became an Astronaut Guinea Pig," September 22, 2016
"How Space Scientists turn Exoplanets into Places," September 12, 2016
"Stash These F-22s for Us?" September 9, 2016
"Yes, Rockets Blow up Sometimes. The OSIRIS-REx Team Isn't Sweating It," September 6, 2016
"Astronomers Don't Think That SETI Signal Is Aliens, and Neither Should You," September 2, 2016
"The Psychology behind the Excitement about Proxima Centauri b," August 26, 2016
"Aliens in Orbit? Probably Not. $100K on a Kickstarter to Check? Oh, sure," August 23, 2016
"How to Succeed in the Asteroid Business without Really Mining," August 18, 2016
"The Rogue Blogger Who Keeps Spoiling Physics' Biggest News," August 5, 2016
"How Queer Scientists Are Shaping Their Future with a Survey," July 26, 2016
"Collecting Space Memorabilia Can Be Cheaper Than You Think," July 20, 2016
"What Happens When a Harassment Whistleblower Goes on the Job Market," July 17, 2016
"Meet the Guy Who Left the SETI Institute to Talk to Aliens," July 15, 2016
"So You Think You Love Earth? Wait Till You See It in VR," June 21, 2016
"The Unknown Lab of Millennials Fast-Tracking NASA's missions," June 10, 2016
"How a Physicist Who Helped Find the Higgs Boson Got into Horse Apps," May 25, 2016
"A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape the Future of Open Science," May 10, 2016
"Ace Rocketeers Swear They'll Put Inflatable Space Stations in Orbit, and Soon," April 11, 2016
"The Mojo Formation Flying Pilots of Mojave," April 8, 2016
"NASA Is Finally Sending a Hotel Magnate's Inflatable Habitat to the ISS," April 4, 2016
"He Drew the Sun for 40 Years, and Now His Telescope Is Dying," April 1 (but not a joke), 2016
"Tantalizing Data from the LHC Has Physicists Psyched," March 16, 2016
"LIGO's First-Ever Detection of Gravitational Waves," February 11, 2016
"Astronomers May Have Found Gravitational Waves. Or Not," January 13, 2016
Popular Science
"This communications company is a lifeline for far-flung operators," August 2023
"An enormous radio telescope may soon be a powerful tool for planetary defense," July 2023
"Inside Blue Abyss’ plan to build super-deep pools for astronauts and military bots," June 2023
"Inside the little-known group that knows where toxic clouds will blow," May 2023
"This online atlas is a goldmine for amateur intelligence sleuths," April 13, 2023
"A DIY-rocket club’s risky dream of launching a human to the edge of space," Spring 2023
"These 3D printed engines can power space-bound rockets—or hypersonic weapons," March 16, 2023
"How a video game could help us better understand nuclear war," February 16, 2023
"How a US intelligence program created a team of Superforecasters,"January 19, 2023
"An Inside Look at the Radiation-Sensing Material that’s on the Pentagon’s Radar," December 1, 2022
"Alien-looking Balloons Might be the Next Weapon in the Fight against Wildfires," Winter 2022
"This former stunt double wants to kick on-set concussions to the curb," Fall 2022
"Can These Government Efforts Crack the Code for DNA Storage?," September 29, 2022
"Ball Corp's Unlikely Journey from Soda Cans to Satellites," Summer 2022
"What New Insights about Our First Nuclear Test Reveal about the Future of War," April 26, 2022
"Cave Worms Could Hold the Secret to a Better Life," Spring 2022
"There Is No Planet B," December 21, 2021
"Want Ethical AI? Hand the Keys to Middle-Schoolers," Fall 2021
"UFO Conspiracies Can Be More Dangerous Than You Think," July 8, 2021
"An American Tail," Summer 2021
"The Dimmer Switch," Spring 2021
"The Hunt for a Crashed CIA Spyplane," January 5, 2020
"On Surviving - and Leaving - Prison during a Pandemic," Winter 2020
"What Happens When Psychedelics Make You See God?" Fall 2020
"Hell? Yes!" Summer 2020
"Meet the GEOINT Singularity," Spring 2020
"Hidden Hearing Loss," Winter 2019
"The Astronaut Diaries," Fall 2019
"Rise of the Plastic Eaters," Summer 2019
"The Last Mile," Spring 2019
"Alarm Will Sound," Winter 2018
"Shamu Dreams of Europa," Fall 2018
"Franck Marchis is Connecting Amateur Astronomers to Extraterrestrial Researchers," Fall 2018
"NASA is Learning the Best Way to Grow Food in Space," Summer 2018
"Space Weather Woman," January/February 2018
"How Jill Tarter Helped Bring SETI's Alien-Seeking Allen Telescope Array to Life," July 4, 2017
"Could This Team of Scientists Prove Cloud-Seeding Really Works?," July/August 2017
"I Spent a Week Exploring How We'll Live in Post-Water America," March/April 2017
"The Space Industry Collides with a Tiny Town," October 20, 2015
"How to Build an Energy-Efficient House on a Budget," October 21, 2015
"Welcome to Your Future Energy-Efficient House," October 19, 2015
"How We'll Get from Los Angeles to Tokyo in 30 minutes: Q&A with Dick Rutan," September 2015
"The Future of the Internet, According to its Father: Q&A with Vint Cerf," July 2015
"Looking for Dark Matter under a Mountain," June 2015
"Is It Time to Phone ET?" May 2015
"Four Ways Spacefaring Microbes Could Muck up the Solar System," January 2015
"Earth Phones ET: Q&A with Jill Tarter," September 2014
"Wildfires in Northern California Threaten the Search for Alien Life," August 2014
Motherboard
"How (and Why) the FBI Mysteriously Shut Down a Federal Solar Observatory," September 21, 2022
"This Company Will Use Satellites and AI to Look for UFOs," February 26, 2020
"Inside Lockheed Martin's New Facility for Simulating Space Wars," September 17, 2019
"Inside the Government's Quantum Computing Summer School," July 25, 2019
"When Should a Drug's Side Effects Count As a Disability?," September 11, 2017
"Mallory Ortberg's Internet," June 13, 2017
"Katie Mack and the Social Media Path to Science Celebrity," April 10, 2017
"Meditating on the World's Most Powerful Rocket Booster," June 30, 2016
"The People Who Believe Electricity Rules the Universe," February 18, 2016
"The Spaceship Engineers Who Build Their Own Planes," November 5, 2015
"The Would-Be Astronaut," July 24, 2015
OneZero
"The Military is Funding Ethicists to Keep Its Brain Enhancement Experiments in Check," March 31, 2021
"How Do We Know If a Virus is Engineered?" August 5, 2020
"The Tech Entrepreneur Who Thinks He Can Reverse Climate Change with Nuclear Power," February 20, 2020
Leapsmag
"How a DARPA Scientist Helped Usher in a Gamechanging COVID-19 Treatment," February 4, 2021
"Meet the Scientists on the Front Lines of Protecting Humanity from a Man-Made Pathogen," April 30, 2020
"Scientists Are Building an AccuWeather for Germs," October 18, 2019
Wyoming Truth
"How the Wyoming State Geological Survey Helps Residents," April 21, 2023
"Scientist Brings NASA’s Work to the West," March 29, 2023
"Mormonland," Parts 1 and 2, February 2023
"UW Community Health Researcher Pursues Food Justice and Security," November 25, 2022
"University of Wyoming Professor Educates the Next Generation about the Legal Side of Energy and the Environment," November 4, 2022
"The Looming Revival of Wyoming’s Uranium Mining for Nuclear Power," November 2, 2022
Bitterroot
"A Denver-Area Town Already Spying from Orbit Is Ready For Space Command," December 6, 2019
"Climate Change Is Ruining Skiing. Aspen Is Fighting Back," October 4, 2019
"Amid Marches, 500 Women Scientists Is Diversifying the Climate Movement," September 20, 2019
"A Utah Researcher Seeks to Understand the West's Suicide Mysteries," July 26, 2019
"Religion for the People: Ex-Mormons Embrace Populism," April 19, 2019
5280
"Inside Colorado's Last Lesbian Bar," December 2021
"Comic Relief," June 2020
Quartz
"NASA scientists have created a framework to ask if alien life exists," December 2, 2021
"MIT Researchers Are Building an Instrument to Study Genetics on Mars," December 2, 2019
CPR/Denverite
"Workers Carry the Burden of Colorado's Food Supply Chain," May 3, 2020
"How to Have Fun in Denver During Social Distancing," March 19, 2020
"Colorado's Getting a Spaceport! To Go with Its Massive Military-Focused Space Industry!" March 19, 2019
Wilson Quarterly
"The Rocket Woman and the Smallsat Invasion," Winter 2019
Air&Space
"Keepers of the Lost Wreck," June 2019
"Coffee, Tea, or Emergency?" April 2019
"Jill Tarter Believes," (excerpt from Making Contact), August 2017
"Elliot and Justin's DIY Jet," June 2017
Pacific Standard
"Shari Steele on Digital Privacy and Tackling Harassment at Tor," January 22, 2019
"The New Normal," March/April 2017
Longreads
"Meet the New Mormons," June 7, 2018
them.
"20 Years after Matthew Shepard's Death, Wyoming is Recruiting Queers," June 13, 2018
Outside
"The Harassment Problem in Scientific Dream Jobs," May 24, 2018
NOVA
"Astronomical Anthropology and the Search for the Earth Beyond Earth," May 9, 2018
"How Landowners Helped Save the Rogue," April 4, 2018
"NASA May Have to Break Its Own Radiation Rules to Go To Mars," April 12, 2017
"What Does Beauty Have to Do with Physics?" June 1, 2016
"Physics in 1 Trillion Years," February 17, 2016
"The B-mode Story You Haven't Heard," October 28, 2015
"How Big a Deal was Stephen Hawking's Big Announcement?" September 2, 2015
High Country News
"What Happens When the Church Comes for Your Kids?" May 1, 2017
KQED
"Feds Reluctant to Fund ET Search, Says 'Contact' Scientist in New Book," (excerpt from Making Contact), July 19, 2017
The Atlantic
"The UFO Trap," June 25, 2021
"Space Travel's Existential Question," October 8, 2017
"A Brief History of SETI@Home," May 23, 2017
"We Need a New Word for Infinite Spaces," February 25, 2016
"Astronomers are Finally Doing Something about Sexual Harassment," January 6, 2016
"A Murder at the American Physical Society," September 29, 2015
"Watching the Universe in Real Time," February 11, 2015
The Washington Post
"Weeki Wachee Mermaids Swim Underwater for 30 Minutes at a Time," June 18, 2018
"The First Female Shuttle Commander Is Speaking at the GOP Convention. Huh?" July 15, 2016
COSMOS
"Underground Detective Reveals Secrets of Stalagmites," January 2016
Nautilus
"The Hidden Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves," July 21, 2016
"The Strange Blissfulness of Storms," June 2, 2016
Smithsonian
"Can Physicists Ever Prove the Multiverse Exists?" April 20, 2016
"Caves Can Now Help Scientists Trace Ancient Wildfires," March 21, 2016
"Martian Cauliflower Could Be Latest Hint of Alien Life," February 1, 2016
Discover
"The Lonely Universe," December 2020
"Is Planet Nine Still out There?" September/October 2019
"Everything Worth Knowing about Pulsars," July/August 2019
"Are Humans or Robots Better Suited to Space Exploration?" April 2019
"The First Black Hole Close-up," April 2018
"Cassini Is Dead; Long Live Cassini," December 2017
"Eclipse 2017: Mind Melt," September 2017
"Everything Worth Knowing about Alien Contact," July 2017
"World Weary? The Best is Yet to Come," April 2017
"To Jupiter, Sans Nuclear," December 2016
"Journey Through the Center of the Earth," November 2016
"Do Big Extinctions Come Like Clockwork--From Space?" September 2016
"Earth's Magnetic Field--Old or Very Old?" July/August 2016
"Everything Worth Knowing about Black Holes," July/August 2016
"When Dawn Met Ceres," Top 100 Stories of 2015, Jan/Feb 2016
"Billionaire Backs Search for Aliens," Top 100 Stories of 2015, Jan/Feb 2016
"Rosetta Reveals the Heart of a Comet," Top 100 Stories of 2015, Jan/Feb 2016
"Organic Molecule Solves Space Mystery," Top 100 Stories of 2015, Jan/Feb 2016
"Medium-Size Black Hole is Just Right," December 2015
"How You--Yes, You--Can Go to Space," October 2015
"Capturing the First Interstellar Travelers," October 2015
"Earth's Worst Days," July/August 2015
"World's First Visual Microphone Extracts Sound from Movement," Top 100 Stories of 2014, January/February 2015
"The Lives of Galaxies," Top 100 Stories of 2014, January/February 2015
"A Skype Session from Mars," November 2014
"I'm Not a Narcissist: I'm Just the Best," November 2014
"Designing a Sexier Spacesuit," October 2014
“Supernova’s Shocking Second Act,” May 2014
“Our Black Hole Lights up,” Top 100 Stories of 2013, January/February 2014
“Baby Pictures of the Cosmos in HD,” Top 100 Stories of 2013, January/February 2014
“The Secret Origins of Cosmic Rays,” Top 100 Stories of 2013, January/February 2014
STAT
"This drug could be the universal snakebite antidote the world desperately needs," March 11, 2016
Slate
"Why Would the Government Lie about Aliens?" February 29, 2020
"The Year UFOs Became a Little More Legit," December 30, 2019
"A Digital Twin Could Become a Critical Part of Your Health Care," February 10, 2016
"The Search for a Universal Snakebite Antidote," January 11, 2016
"20 Women on What It's Like to be Lesbian and Ex-Mormon," January 4, 2016
"An Honest Biography of Sally Ride," October 6, 2015
"Mount Shasta: Where Seekers and Spiritualists Converge," July 23, 2015
"Obsessed with Finding Earth's Twin," December 11, 2014
Hakai
"A New Treatment Could Save Sea Lions from Deadly Algae," November 19, 2015
"Peace: That Ship Has Sailed," September 23, 2015
Aeon
"How Thinking about Infinity Changes Kids' Brains," March 9, 2016
"Does Earth have a shadow biosphere?" July 2015
"What our messages to ET say about us," January 2015
"Galactic positioning system," May 2014
The Guardian (US)
"As We Begin to Think of Exoplanets as Real Places We Can Visit, We Will Want to Go," March 20, 2015
Discover online
"Why Do We Even Wear Pants?" January 9, 2018
"How GMOs Will Help Humans Live on Mars," December 18, 2015
"Taming the New Frontiers in Gene Editing," November 17, 2015
"I Sent a Sample of My Poop to uBiome. Here's What I Found out," October 7, 2015
"How Astronomers Will Find Earth 2.0," July 16, 2015
"The 10 Weirdest Objects in the Universe," June 1, 2015
"Why Astronomers Will Hate the Internet of Things," May 13, 2015
"Liquid Water Could Be Just Beneath the Surface on Mars," April 13, 2015
"Six Things Facebook (Thinks It) Knows about Your Love Life," March 20, 2015
"NASA's Dawn Arrives at Ceres," March 7, 2015
"Math Explains Why All Hipsters Look the Same," March 5, 2015
"Oops! 8 Discoveries Astronomers Didn't Mean to Make," February 10, 2015
"Astronomers Spot a Supernova in the Making," February 9, 2015
"The Demise of a Discovery: BICEP2 and Gravitational Waves," February 2, 2015
"Rosetta Reveals Ice, Dunes, and Rocky Cliffs on Comet 67P," January 22, 2015
"Seven Facts about the Bizarre Double-Star System Eta Carinae," January 12, 2015
"The 'Pillars of Creation' Have Been, Are Being, and Will Be Destroyed," January 6, 2015
"If Mars Once Hosted Life, How Would We Know?" November 5, 2014
"Mistaken Identity Explains how G2 Survived a Black Hole," November 4, 2014
"What It Will Take to Become an Interstellar Civilization," October 28, 2014
"The Tale of a Vintage Spacecraft That'll Never Make it Home," July 10, 2014
“Seven Things You Didn’t Know about Rosetta,” January 21, 2014
“How a New Type of Astronomy Investigates the Most Mysterious Objects in the Universe,” January 6, 2014
“Did Voyager 1 Leave the Solar System or Not?” March 20, 2013
New Scientist
"These Mysterious Flaring Objects Could be a New Phenomenon," October 20, 2016
"Long-Term View of Extreme Cosmic Burst Challenges Astronomers," March 31, 2016
"Star Clusters Could Host Long-Lived Civilizations," January 6, 2015
"Black Hole Batteries Could Power Mysterious Radio Bursts," November 23, 2015
"Crowdsourcing Works Best if Some Don't Help," September 16, 2015
"Earth's Composition Might be Unusual for a Planet with Life," September 15, 2015
"Black Holes May Be Brick Walls that Bounce Information Back Out," September 11, 2015
"Neptune's Sudden Jolt Could Explain Weird Ring in Kuiper Belt," July 29, 2015
"Misbehaving Pulsar's Sudden Slow-Down May Teach Us how They Tick," June 27, 2015
"Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole is a Cool Neighborhood for Ice," June 26, 2015
"Dust from Asteroid Mining Spells Danger for Satellites," May 27, 2015
"Stars Throw out a Lifetime's Carbon Waste in Just 1,000 Years," April 21, 2015
"Six Questions about Strange Cosmic Radio Bursts," April 2, 2015
"Is this ET? Mystery of Strange Radio Bursts from Space," March 30, 2015
"Volleyballene Puts a New Spin on Buckyballs," February 26, 2015
"How Low Do They Go? Meteors, That Is," February 18, 2015
"Solo Supernovae Challenge Cosmic Distance Standards," January 28, 2015
Singularity Hub
"Can You Own Part of an Asteroid?" December 9, 2015
"Russia and Europe Want a Moon Colony—Why Is NASA So Focused on Mars?" November 25, 2015
"Want Your Own Personal Satellite? Reaching Space Is Becoming (Relatively) Cheap," November 6, 2015
"Is Life Swimming the Vast Oceans on Outer Solar System Moons? Here's How We'll Find Out," October 13. 2015
"Five Missions That Will Stop an Asteroid Hitting Earth," October 9. 2015
"Who Will Become the First Martian?" October 1, 2015
"What Water on Mars Means for the Future of Space Exploration," September 29, 2015
Astronomy
"Incredible Stories from Space (Robots)," March 2, 2017
"The Virgo Supercluster, Our 100,000 Closest Galaxies," December 2015
"Where is astronomy going?" September 2014
“Exploring the biggest asteroids,” March 2014
“Curiosity’s latest findings on Mars,” January 2014
“A field trip to the stratosphere,” November 2013
“The 40 greatest mysteries of the universe,” August 2013
Other
Smaller Questions (co-founder, blogger 2011-2013)
"Sarah Scoles on Doodles+Communicating Science to the Public: The Bigger Picture," Speaking Up for Us: Midpoint Series, April 2012
"The Drake Equation: 50 Years of Giving Direction to the Scientific Search for Life Beyond Earth," Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Universe in the Classroom, Winter 2011