Elisha Sauers
Elisha Sauers is the space and future tech reporter for Mashable, interested in asteroids, astronauts, and astro nuts. In over 15 years of reporting, she's covered a variety of topics, including health, business, and government, with a penchant for FOIA and other public records requests. She previously worked for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia, and The Capital in Annapolis, Maryland, now known as The Capital-Gazette. She's won numerous state awards for beat reporting and national recognition for narrative storytelling. Send space tips and story ideas to [email protected] or text 443-684-2489. Follow her on Twitter at @elishasauers.
By Elisha Sauers
Want to see a newly discovered comet? Look up in January.
This icy visitor won't come again soon.
The surprising reason a Mars rover just started dropping samples
This is what they call Plan B.
How scientists might find life on a moon of Saturn while skipping the hardest part
What evidence is Enceladus shooting into space?
New NASA drone video shows Artemis spacecraft sticking the landing
See footage of the moonship crushing this crucial test.
Astronomers spot a planet caught in a disastrous death spiral
This planet crossed its star one too many times.
Astronomers saw a long, bright space blast, but it wasn't a supernova
The hunt for the universe's gold factories might have gotten a little easier.
Watch NASA bring Artemis home with a spectacular splashdown and recovery
A bad weather forecast has forced the landing south
Outer space news that broke the internet in 2022
This year's guide to the universe.
NASA's Orion spacecraft snaps some mind-bending images from the moon
That crescent is actually Earth rising in the distance.
NASA’s Artemis splashdown will put Orion through a nail-biting test
Fingers crossed the spacecraft doesn't burn up
NASA is back in the moon business. Here's what that means.
Artemis mission sets the stage for a moon rush.
NASA's moon rocket blasted out jumbo clouds. Don't call them smoke.
Not as they appear.
NASA just blasted its new megarocket on historic journey to the moon
Artemis gets its space legs with a stunning maiden voyage.
The unusual things NASA's moon-bound spaceship is carrying
Spoiler: They're taking a heckuva lot of dolls.
NASA will attempt a moon launch in November. So will someone else.
A private company plans to make history, too.
Meet the badass woman running NASA's megarocket launch to the moon
Charlie Blackwell-Thompson basically wrote the Space Launch System rocket's instruction manual.
NASA megarocket engineers are waiting to eat 50 gallons of beans
Once a surefire way to clear a firing room?
NASA's moon rocket survives storm and is still set for historic launch
Full steam ahead.
SpaceX's mighty Falcon Heavy rocket blasts off on a secret mission
November brings on a heavyweight championship of rockets.
He didn't live to see NASA's futuristic mission, but his ashes will join it in space
A rocket engineer saved the inflatable heat shield project.
NASA's Webb may have just seen 2 galaxies merging in the early universe
Scientists hunt for the origins of galaxies.