The odd orbital arrangements of objects beyond Neptune have led scientists to speculate about the existence of a…

If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. Such is the philosophy of Jose Maria Madiedo, an astronomer at the…

Saturn’s rings might have formed relatively recently—like, in the past hundred million years or so—according to new…

Tomorrow morning, an Epsilon-4 rocket will blast off from the JAXA Uchinoura Space Center in Japan. Onboard is a…

Scientists have found evidence of seasons on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, thanks to observations akin to…

Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have discovered an oddly tilted planet-forming disk within a double binary star…

The human tolerance for sound is, on a galactic level, puny. Volcano eruptions, jackhammer-intensive construction work,…

Ten hut, Gizmodo readers! Do you have a New Year’s Resolution you should be working on? Do not answer that rhetorical…

At the end of its life, our Sun could end up as a crystal—and physicists now have observational evidence to back up…

Scientists have measured a fundamental property of a supermassive black hole—how fast it spins—by measuring a star…

The Hubble Space Telescope team has temporarily suspended operations of Wide Field Camera 3 following a hardware glitch.

A telescope on the International Space Station made an incredible high-resolution measurement of the x-rays resulting…

Canadian scientists have detected 13 new fast radio bursts, those mysterious, split-second, high-energy pulses that…

As the U.S. government shutdown drags on, scientists are beginning to see the effects of the closure firsthand.

For the first time in history, a mobile probe is active on the far side of the Moon.

While performing its 17th flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft witnessed a volcanic plume erupting from the surface…

Nancy Grace Roman, a former NASA executive who is often described as the “mother” of the Hubble Space Telescope, has…

The past year saw tremendous advancements in humanity’s capacity to explore space, and 2019 promises to be no…

Those of you with dark enough skies last week might have caught a glimpse of the green comet 46P/Wirtanen. It was…

With its extensive system of rings, Saturn is among the most beautiful planets in the Solar System. Sadly, it’s beauty…