Sarah Scoles

A mile beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountain lies the DarkSide-50 detector. The three-story cylinder was built …

Robot lawnmowers are just one of the many coming gadgets that will be incorporated into the Internet of Thing…

report that bursts of radio waves from the distant universe exhibit a weird mathematical pattern have freshl…

It's nothing you'd want to baste a turkey with, but researchers have found evidence of supersalty brines on t…

In our search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), we humans have mostly just waited, and listened, for …

Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain. Is it…

Though astronomers will plow through New Horizons' numerical data while sitting in the glow of their computer…

Facebook is watching you, collecting data on your every interaction and feeding it to their data scientists, …

Today, dwarf planet Ceres became the first such planet to have company over. The visitor is NASA's Dawn space…

The skinny jeans, the progressive politics, the Instagram photos: Hipsters, like goths and punk rockers befor…

GREAT balls of fire rip through Earth's atmosphere every day - but guessing which will hit the ground has bee…

FORGET football, buckyballs are bouncing around the volleyball court these days. Volleyballene is the first b…

Even though the sky looks about the same every night to those of us here on Earth, cataclysmic things happen …

Astronomers can see into the future of the two superdense stars racing around the center of planetary nebula …

Last week, BICEP2 scientists - who in March announced evidence of cosmic inflation, a potentially Nobel-worth…

What happens if we accidentally take tiny passengers to other planets?

Some supernovae might run a short fuse.

After 10 years, 4 billion miles, and an Interstellar-style hibernation, the Rosetta spacecraft arrived in Aug…

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will take on another kind of cargo after it encounters Pluto: memories of home.

The two stars of Eta Carinae are 6 million times as bright as our sun, whipping around each other once every …

The "Pillars of Creation," a photograph of part of the Eagle Nebula, is one of the most iconic images ever ta…

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" has once again made aural history. More than 130 years after Thomas Edison shouted t…

If you'd never met a human, figuring out that babies and seniors are the same species might not be easy. Astr…