ScienceSpaceflight Pentagon Mission Will Include Test of Blue Origin’s ‘Space Truck’ With the New Glenn rocket moving closer to launch and plans to land on the Moon next year, Jeff Bezos' company is finally showing signs of life. By Passant Rabie Published March 20, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight SpaceX Targets Early May for Starship’s Quickest Turnaround Yet Elon Musk’s megarocket is grounded pending an FAA investigation, but the relative smoothness of the third mission means the next launch should happen soon. By George Dvorsky Published March 20, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace ‘Devil Comet’ Set to Align With Total Solar Eclipse for Unique April Display Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks could be visible to the unaided eye in the coming weeks, raising hopes of an otherworldly conjunction. By George Dvorsky Updated March 20, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Supercomputer Hints at the Existence of ‘Super Diamonds’ Computers have identified a material that's harder than diamonds. Making the stuff presents a tougher test. By Isaac Schultz Published March 19, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Engineers Devise Plan to De-Ice ‘Dark Universe’ Telescope from a Million Miles Away Euclid's mission team is testing a new way to de-ice the telescope's optics and restore its ability to explore the dark universe. By Passant Rabie Published March 19, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceAnimals Giant Toe-Biting Water Bugs Are on the Loose in Cyprus The bugs have never been seen in Cyprus before and are known (unfortunately) as the 'toe biter.' By Isaac Schultz Published March 19, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace The Upcoming Total Solar Eclipse Is Totally Stressing Me Out The April 8 solar eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime event, and my anxieties about planning, traffic, and photographing it are growing by the day. By George Dvorsky Published March 19, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePaleontology The Absolute Unit Garzapelta Is Friend-Shaped. Shame It’s Dead An ancient, spike-covered crocodile relative was discovered in Texas. By Isaac Schultz Published March 19, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight No, You Can’t Actually Eat A Michelin Star Meal in Space There's space, and then there's kinda-space. We're sick of people not knowing the difference. By Passant Rabie Published March 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Our Brains Are in Trouble: Nearly Half the World Living with Neurological Illness New research estimates that nearly half of people globally are living with a condition like Alzheimer’s, stroke, or epilepsy. By Ed Cara Published March 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Major Studies Find No Evidence of Brain Injury in Havana Syndrome Cases “While we did not identify significant differences in participants... it’s important to acknowledge that these symptoms are very real." By Ed Cara Published March 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Space Force Doesn’t Want Anyone to See Its Secret Logo Mockups I guess we'll never know what the runner-up designs were to that Star Fleet-looking logo. By Passant Rabie Published March 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceEarth Science Photos Show Wall of Fire and Smoke in Iceland’s Latest Eruption The ground near Grindavík spat out lava for the fourth time in three months. By Isaac Schultz Updated March 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePaleontology The Strangest Amber Fossils Ever Discovered Every once in a while, paleontologists stumble upon some particularly bizarre specimens and scenes. By George Dvorsky Published March 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
Science Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Expose Willy Wonka’s Scam In this brainteaser, you must convince Uncle Joe that Wonka’s winning bars don’t exist. By Jack Murtagh Published March 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
Science World’s Largest Plane Drops a Hypersonic Aircraft Plus: Everything to know about SpaceX's big test of its Starship megarocket. Gizmodo Staff Published March 16, 2024
ScienceSpaceflight Former Blue Origin Employees Want to Harvest Helium-3 From the Moon The company's founders, including an Apollo 17 astronaut, just rounded up $15 million to fund their venture. By Passant Rabie Published March 16, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Observatory Buried Under Antarctica Spots Seven Potential ‘Ghost Particles’ The IceCube Observatory’s search for neutrinos has turned up a handful of promising signals. By Isaac Schultz Published March 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight Everything We Noticed During Starship’s Remarkable Third Test Flight SpaceX’s Starship was pushed to its limits during a 49-minute mission on Thursday. By George Dvorsky Updated March 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpaceflight NASA Tests Lunar Lighthouse With the Help of Private Odie Lander The navigation system could help future explorers find their way across the Moon's terrain by turning the astronauts themselves into a beacon. By Passant Rabie Published March 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
