Sarah Lewin started writing for Space.com in June of 2015 as a Staff Writer and became Associate Editor in 2019 . Her work has been featured by Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Quanta Magazine, Wired, The Scientist, Science Friday and WGBH's Inside NOVA. Sarah has an MA from NYU's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and an AB in mathematics from Brown University. When not writing, reading or thinking about space, Sarah enjoys musical theatre and mathematical papercraft. She is currently Assistant News Editor at Scientific American. You can follow her on Twitter @SarahExplains.
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During a live taping of the podcast StarTalk at New York Comic-Con yesterday (Oct. 5), Neil deGrasse Tyson read an emotional letter to NASA on their shared 60th birthday.

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The Saturn V rocket and its predecessors soar toward open space in the first of three new posters by Space.com celebrating landmark anniversaries in space history.

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New York fans of space and science fiction, get ready: It's time for New York Comic-Con 2018!

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Hurry before they're gone! Theaters across the country are offering free screenings of "First Man" on Oct. 1.

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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa announced Sept. 17 that he has chosen to go to the moon in 2023 — and bring six to eight artists along for the ride.

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If you watched the Cassini probe's spectacular dive into Saturn last September, you weren't alone — and now its media campaign has earned NASA an Emmy award.

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SpaceX is prepared to loft a hefty communications satellite into orbit tonight (Sept. 9), attempting to land a Falcon 9 rocket's first stage on a drone ship at sea.

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After a successful engine test-fire, SpaceX is on track for a Saturday night launch of the company's Falcon 9 rocket, which will carry a Telstar communications satellite.

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New images from the Hubble Space Telescope show Saturn's ultraviolet auroras swirling at the planet's north pole in the months before and after the northern summer solstice.

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In a new clip from the upcoming movie "UFO," releasing digitally and on DVD Sept. 4, characters discuss how aliens could use physical constants to navigate across space.

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The six crewmembers on the International Space Station each have their own phone-booth-size sleeping cabin, but they all jammed into one for a fun photo op.

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Before robotic probes can land on alien worlds far from human influence and perform other ambitious deep-space feats, their brains will need to level up.

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NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold caught a spectacular view of Typhoon Soulik swirling toward southern Japan from his post on the International Space Station.

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The Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest blaze in California's history, releases clouds of smoke in new photos from NASA, and fires blazing over Canada are visible from a million miles away in space.

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"Ask a Spaceman" is live for the first time on Facebook — and astrophysicist Paul Sutter jumps right into it with a trip to Pluto.

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The astrophysicist is in: In the new Facebook Watch series "Ask a Spaceman," pro explainer (and Space.com columnist) Paul Sutter answers your questions about the strangest corners of the universe.

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"Killjoys" fans, rejoice: Your favorite trio of space bounty hunters is now reliving its adventures on the streaming app VRV.

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