Space entrepreneurs tend to share a fondness for libertarian principles. So before checking into your space…
Author: Sarah Scoles
Big’s Backyard Ultra and the Rise of Women Endurance Stars
Maggie Guterl is the first woman to win the Big's Backyard Ultra, an endurance running race…
The Area 51 Raid Was the Worst Way to Spot an Alien or UFO
Dozens of revelers gathered near the top-secret base, purportedly hoping to glimpse some extraterrestrial life—but all…
Don’t Storm Area 51, Begs the Webmaster of the UFO Kingdom
Joerg Arnu loves the secretive military base, documents it on an exhaustive fan site, and wants…
How America’s Spooks Seek to Spy on Distant Satellites
The intelligence community has plans for a telescope network that can see not just a blob…
Here Come the Space Tugs, Ready to Tidy Up Earth’s Orbits
SpaceX is teaming up with the maker of a space tugboat, which would nudge satellites around,…
Jill Tarter Swears She’d Tell Us If She’d Seen an Alien
In a special extraterrestrial edition of WIRED’s Tech Support series, the legendary SETI astronomer takes questions…
A New Kind of Space Camp Teaches the Art of Martian Medicine
Enrollees—mainly engineers and health workers—pretend to live on Mars, wear spacesuits, and ride in ATVs as…
The WIRED Guide to Aliens
Everything you need to know about SETI, the Drake equation, ’Oumuamua, and hot tubs.
The Pentagon Launched Another Space Agency. Do We Need It?
By going big on small satellites, the new Space Development Agency plans to defend the country…