Caleb Scharf

There may be more than one way to tune a universe for life.

It’s a myth that legendary works in science aren’t read.

Adventures in space travel remind us how imprecisely we measure reality.

See where NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will go and what it may find.

Black holes are cosmic dimmers.

On the origin of an interstellar species.

On the red planet, existential threats abound.

Life on Earth is a sketchy guide to intelligent life in the cosmos.

Does the data we produce serve us, or vice versa?