Space & Spaceflight

These Are the Most Detailed Images Yet of the Bright Spots on Ceres

The bright spots of Ceres continue to be a source of fascination for astronomers, professional and amateur alike. Now, NASA has provided the most detailed images yet of the strange structures. Scientist have already established that that the spots are essentially giant piles of salt, though recently it came to light that they seem to…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Watch NASA’s Space Fire Experiment Launch Tonight [Update: Good Launch!]

Normally, space and fire don’t mix well, but NASA is deliberately going to cause a “large fire” inside a Cygnus resupply vessel just to see what happens. The rocket’s launching tonight, and as always, you can watch live. The first part of Cygnus’s mission should hopefully not involve any fire at all: the rocket will…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

Something Weird and Amazing Is Happening at Jupiter’s North Pole

If you were soaring through Jupiter’s turbid skies wearing a pair of x-ray goggles, you might get lucky and witness something incredible. Brilliant flashes of light, more luminous and powerful than the Sun, occurring every 26 minutes and stretching as far as the eye can see. That’s the essence of a massive solar storm recently…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

NASA Developed a Super Compact Fitness Machine For Deep Space Missions

Astronauts at the International Space Station have to work out every day to keep themselves healthy. This means they exercise two hours per day on three different machines—a bike, a treadmill, and the so-called Advanced Restive Exercise Device, ARED—to prevent loss of bone density and muscle mass. On the ISS there is enough space for…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

Watch Gizmodo Interview the Astronauts Living on the ISS

Join us as the crew of the ISS tells us what they think of NASA’s plan to ignite a big fire in space, share what’s on their space bucket lists, choose the best space snack, and demonstrate some synchronized space gymnastics. NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Jeff Williams and ESA astronaut Tim Peake chatted with…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

First Ever Supernova ‘Shock Breakout’ Captured in Visible Light

When a star dies and erupts as a supernova it can produce a short, sharp shockwave that astronomers call a “shock breakout.” For the first time ever, astronomers have captured such an event as optical light. When a red supergiant star runs out of fuel and can no longer sustain itself, gravity causes its core…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Gizmodo Is Interviewing the Astronauts on the Space Station Tomorrow Morning

Do you ever wonder what it’s like to drift in a large tin can hundreds of miles above the Earth’s surface? Then tune in tomorrow morning when we’ll be joined by members of the current ISS crew and the new arrivals living aboard the International Space Station. Tomorrow morning at 9:10 a.m. (EDT), we’ll be…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Rivers of Liquid Nitrogen May Have Once Flowed on Pluto

New research presented today at the 2016 Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference reveals tropic and arctic regions on Pluto, and a dynamic climate cycle that’s causing its atmosphere to fluctuate in size over time—possibly allowing for lakes and rivers of liquid nitrogen to form at the surface. New Horizons made its historic flyby of Pluto…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Watch a Crew of New Astronaunts Launch to the International Space Station Live

The Soyuz spacecraft will be blasting off into space this evening—and pulling a crew of new astronauts up to the International Space Station along with it. Watch it happen live right here. The new crew members of Expedition 48 will include NASA’s Jeff Williams (who is set to take over command of the station from…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Asteroid Hunters Around the World Just Spotted Something Incredible

If an asteroid were closing in on our planet, we’d know about it quickly thanks to a dedicated network of astronomers. But this week, the Near Earth Object Coordination Center (NEOCC) had its eyes fixed on something else: two Mars-bound spacecraft attempting to escape Earth’s gravity well. And they did a bang-up job capturing the…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

These Newly Discovered ‘Super Galaxies’ Are the Biggest and Brightest Ever Seen

Looking at these spiral galaxies glowing brightly against the dark, it’s hard to imagine that they could be so easily missed—but they were right up until now, when an astronomical survey catalogued them as equal to the biggest and brightest galaxies ever seen. The galaxies pictured above, dubbed super spirals, were uncovered by the Sloan…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Five New Studies Reveal Just How Insanely Weird Pluto Is

On July 14th 2015, millions of two-legged mammals watched with bated breath as a piano-sized spacecraft of their own making pulled up to an icy rock three billion miles away. Through the eyes of New Horizons, we got our first good look at Pluto, and what we saw astonished us. But eight months on and…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

This Cheap 3D-Printed Antenna Works Just as Well as Its Expensive Siblings

This light pink plastic dish may look like something from your grandmother’s china collection, but in fact it’s the European Space Agency’s first 3D-printed dual-reflector antenna. And it works surprisingly well. The antenna, with a corrugated feedhorn and two reflectors, was printed as a single unit using a plastic polymer then given a thin lick…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

There’s Something Strange Happening to Those Bright Spots on Ceres

For over a year, Ceres’ bright spots have dazzled astronomers and the space-loving public alike. The glimmers became a little less mysterious in December, when we learned that they’re essentially giant piles of salt. But now, ground-based observations are adding another fascinating wrinkle to the story. The bright spots are changing. That’s according to Paulo…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

What Are These Strange Bright Spots on the Sun?

From our perch here on Earth, the sun seems pretty uniform from day to day. But a closer look in this new magnetic map reveals that it’s teeming with activity—and with some intriguing bright spots. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory released this new magnetic map they put together of the sun to show all the magnetic…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Curiosity’s Next Mission Will Focus on Life on Mars

The Curiosity rover was sent up to Mars with the important job of hunting for microbes on the red planet’s surface. Now, that job is done, and Curiosity is getting a new mission—and that mission is all about the past, and future, of life on Mars. A new team of scientists was just selected to…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Watch a Groundbreaking New Science Mission Blast Off For Mars

Sleep? Who needs that when you can watch one of the coolest Martian science missions of the decade blast off for the Red Planet? That’s happening very early tomorrow morning—and if you’re up at odd hours, you won’t want to miss it. https://gizmodo.com/a-major-european-mission-to-mars-will-hunt-for-signs-of-1763874937 After years of preparation, the European Space Agency and Roscosmos are finally…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Having Set the Record for Most Time in Space, Scott Kelly Is Leaving NASA

Having logged almost a full year in space—340 days, more than any astronaut has even spent in space for a single stretch—astronaut Scott Kelly is leaving NASA. He’ll stay through the end of the month before retiring, NASA announced. Following his almost-year long mission in space, Kelly currently holds the record for most time spent…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

This Incredibly Deep Space View Could Solve One of the Mysteries of Our Universe

This is one of the very deepest looks into space we’ll ever see, and when you look at it in comparison to other deep space shots, it reveals something intriguing about our universe. NASA and the ESA released this new deep field Hubble image today showing a section of space running almost precisely parallel to…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Why Europe’s New Mission to Mars Is Such a Big Deal

NASA gets all the glory when it comes to Martian exploration, but two other space agencies are now hoping to change that. Early next week, the European Space Agency and Roscosmos are launching the first phase of their joint ExoMars mission, a major new scientific effort with an badass goal: discovering signs of life on…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

These Are the Most Detailed Images Yet of the Bright Spots on Ceres

Watch NASA’s Space Fire Experiment Launch Tonight [Update: Good Launch!]

Something Weird and Amazing Is Happening at Jupiter’s North Pole

NASA Developed a Super Compact Fitness Machine For Deep Space Missions

Watch Gizmodo Interview the Astronauts Living on the ISS

First Ever Supernova ‘Shock Breakout’ Captured in Visible Light

Gizmodo Is Interviewing the Astronauts on the Space Station Tomorrow Morning

Rivers of Liquid Nitrogen May Have Once Flowed on Pluto

Watch a Crew of New Astronaunts Launch to the International Space Station Live

Asteroid Hunters Around the World Just Spotted Something Incredible

These Newly Discovered ‘Super Galaxies’ Are the Biggest and Brightest Ever Seen

Five New Studies Reveal Just How Insanely Weird Pluto Is

This Cheap 3D-Printed Antenna Works Just as Well as Its Expensive Siblings

There’s Something Strange Happening to Those Bright Spots on Ceres

What Are These Strange Bright Spots on the Sun?

Curiosity’s Next Mission Will Focus on Life on Mars

Watch a Groundbreaking New Science Mission Blast Off For Mars

Having Set the Record for Most Time in Space, Scott Kelly Is Leaving NASA

This Incredibly Deep Space View Could Solve One of the Mysteries of Our Universe

Why Europe’s New Mission to Mars Is Such a Big Deal

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