The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint will honor the work of Stephen Hawking with a commemorative coin featuring the…

In space, anything goes. Even messed up science experiments.

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

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

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

Physicists have spotted four new instances of black holes colliding and sending their gravitational waves toward the…

On September 14, 2015, signals from one of the Universe’s most mind-boggling, powerful events produced the tiniest…

Somewhere between a second and a millennium from now, you will die. Your body and all of its parts will cease…

One of NASA’s flagship telescopes, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, went into safe mode last week following gyroscope…

August 17, 2017 heralded one of the most important observations in astronomy’s history: two neutron stars colliding,…

You might think of black holes as enormous vacuum cleaners, sucking in all the matter and light that ventures too…

What happens when a dead star meets a black hole? The answer appears to be a brief zombie awakening, according to a new…

First, the bad news: Sunday is the anniversary of the disastrous white supremacist Unite the Right rally in…

Everyone knows there is no sound in space. After all, a sound wave requires a medium, like air or water, to travel…

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is magnificent. For a hundred years, it has consistently predicted all…

Today, scientists made a huge announcement: Telescopes around the world recorded a source of mysterious,…

We’ve seen supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies tearing stars to shreds. We’ve detected the energy wave…

Black holes are already some of the strangest objects in the universe, and scientists sometimes dream up some pretty…

When a star meets the gravity of a black hole, chaos ensues.

The center of our galaxy is an extreme place that holds all sorts of mysteries. Among those enigmas are what appear to…