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Astronauts’ Exercise Programs Could Help Cancer Patients Endure Chemotherapy

In a new paper this week, researchers are making a novel argument: Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and astronauts in space suffer similar health problems—including bone and muscle loss—and as such could benefit from similar training regimens. Author Jessica Scott, a senior scientist at the NASA Johnson Space Center who’s studied how spaceflight affects the human…

Health Ed Cara

How the 2010s Changed Physics Forever

This decade marked not just one but a series of turning points in the history of physics. The 2010s were an incredible decade for new knowledge, but more importantly, this decade’s discoveries—and the resounding lack thereof—have changed the way physicists think about their respective fields. Particle physics and astrophysics have entered new eras that will…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

‘Arrokoth’ Is a Great Name for This Weird, Lobey Space Rock

The New Horizons team announced yesterday that MU69’s official name would be “Arrokoth.” Folks, that’s a good name. You may know this rock as the oddly shaped object in the distant Kuiper Belt we first got a good look at earlier this year. It was the target of the New Horizons mission after its flyby…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Fireball Lights Up the Skies Over St. Louis During Northern Taurid Meteor Shower

Make a wish: Cameras in St. Louis, Missouri caught what appeared to be a meteor falling from the skies on Monday night, KSDL and KMOV reported. Both stations reported that local residents saw a flash of light and loud noise at about 8:55 p.m. local time (9:55 p.m. ET). Twitter user David Vergel posted footage…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay

How to Make a Black Hole in a Science Lab

Nearly 50 years ago—before Interstellar, A Brief History of Time, and certainly the Event Horizon Telescope—postdoctoral researcher William Unruh was attempting to explain black holes to a crowd at an Oxford University colloquium. There were no reference points with which to compare an object so dense that light cannot escape its warped gravity. So he…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Samsung’s ‘Space Selfie’ Satellite Plummets From Sky Onto Michigan Horse Farm

A satellite that Samsung used for a PR stunt in which it sent a selfie of model and actor Cara Delevingne into space has crash-landed on a farm in Gratiot County, Michigan. “This baby fell out of the sky and landed in our yard,” Nancy Mumby-Welke said in a video she recorded of the fallen…

Space & Spaceflight Jennings Brown

Elon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan’s Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $5 Million

Last year, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went on YouTube host Joe Rogan’s show and smoked some weed. That was unfortunate, because SpaceX happens to be a U.S. military contractor with security clearances, and the U.S. government does not like marijuana—and in this instance, it disliked it so much it spent $5 million to…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay

Check Out NASA’s Look for the Next Lunar Landing

With NASA’s new line of spacesuits, its next crew of lunar bound astronauts likely won’t look much different from Neil Armstrong et al. while hopping around on the Moon. They’ll be a hell of a lot more comfortable while taking that “one small step for man,” though. That’s because their suits will be custom-fitted via…

Space & Spaceflight Alyse Stanley

Ad Astra‘s Existential Crisis Got Me Playing…Destiny Again?

A strange thing happened to me after I walked out of James Gray’s Dad Issues (in Spaaaaaaaace) saga, Ad Astra—something I’ve not even remotely thought about doing for near enough a year. I sat at my PS4, thoughts about the film still jangling around in my head in process, and I booted up a game…

Games James Whitbrook

Elon Musk Unveils His Gigantic Starship Prototype, Says It’ll Be Flying Within Months

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the towering Mk1 prototype of his Starship space vehicle on Saturday evening in Boca Chica Village, Texas, announcing that the craft will be ready to fly within the next few months. According to the New York Times, Musk claimed that within one or two months the 164-foot-tall, 200-ton…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay

Photo: X-ray: NASA/CXC/George Mason Univ./R. Pfeifle et al.; Optical: SDSS & NASA/STScI

These Three Supermassive Black Holes Could One Day Join Forces

Scientists have spotted the best evidence yet of a trio of supermassive black holes in apparently merging galaxies, a new paper reports. Theories of the universe’s evolution predict that galaxies, and the enormous black holes at their centers, evolve over time by merging with one another. But scenarios where three supermassive black holes exist in…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

What Ad Astra Gets Wrong About Space Travel, Astronomy, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

As an astrophysicist and a film critic, I’ve been waiting my whole life for a big-budget adventure film that spans the whole solar system. There are some stunning sequences in Ad Astra, and many of the details about astronaut life and space travel are spot-on. But some of the themes and ideas that drive the…

Tech News Andy Howell

Area 51, Impossible Burger, and Duck Gifs: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Tomorrow marks the first day of fall 2019, though you’d be forgiven for not noticing in much of the country thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures predicted to extend into October through much of the nation (and, well, almost everywhere almost all the time now). And summer went out with a bang, with millions turning out…

Tech News Tom McKay

The Story Behind That Delightful Ad Astra Cameo

Ad Astra is a thoughtful movie, a cosmic Heart of Darkness featuring Brad Pitt as a quiet and calm astronaut searching for his father. Serious business, in other words. But even serious business needs a little fun. As explained in a new story by Entertainment Weekly (and the spoilers here are only minor, so no…

Movies Julie Muncy

Ad Astra Is One of the Best Space Movies in Years

Gorgeous spaceships flying deep into space to save planet Earth. Peril in an infinite abyss. Beautifully composed reflections off a helmet. We’ve seen it all before. Even the most futuristic space movies usually feel somewhat familiar and yet Ad Astra, the latest film from director James Gray, does not. It tells a seemingly simple story…

Movies Germain Lussier

Apple’s Big iPhone Event, Labor Wins Big, and Skeletal Panic Hormones: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

It’s Sept. 15, but because time has lost all context and meaning and we live in a ever-spinning technicolor nightmare kaleidoscope, we are entering week three of the one-sided feud Donald Trump has against federal weather agencies for questioning his incorrect assertion that Hurricane Dorian was on a path that could hit Alabama. Meanwhile, the…

Tech News Tom McKay

Ad Astra Director Broke the Rules of Space for Brad Pitt’s Acting

It’s no surprise that most movies and shows don’t follow space logic. Even works like Firefly or Gravity, known for attempting a sense of realism, bend or break the rules. Director and co-writer James Gray may have promised Ad Astra will have the “most realistic depiction of space travel” ever, but he did make one…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Poll: Slightly Over Half of People in the UK Want to Get Us All Killed by Aliens, Probably

Slightly over half of people in the UK believe that if the Earth received communications from an extraterrestrial, then the human species should collectively act like huge dumbasses and respond, according to a University of Oxford poll cited by Sky News on Tuesday. Perhaps it was not emphasized enough that if the UK received an…

Tech News Tom McKay

Tom Hanks Will Play an Astronaut Again for Mattel’s Live-Action Major Matt Mason Movie

After years of playing a toy cowboy opposite one, Tom Hanks has decided that it is his time to be the toy astronaut. Variety reports that, in the endless chase to turn every toy brand, no matter how obscure, into a multimedia franchise blockbuster epic, Mattel has decided to rummage around in its toy box…

Movies James Whitbrook

I Made Amazing Images of Galaxies and Nebulas in Minutes Using This Idiot-Proof Automatic Telescope

Steven Bellavia couldn’t find the astrophotography setup he wanted, so he built his own. The engineer’s “Bellavia Mini” combined decades of expertise and a love of telescope building into an observatory that fits in the back of his car. Bellavia labored over perfecting every element—the optical tube is made from wood, rather than aluminum, to…

Other Gadgets Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Astronauts’ Exercise Programs Could Help Cancer Patients Endure Chemotherapy

How the 2010s Changed Physics Forever

‘Arrokoth’ Is a Great Name for This Weird, Lobey Space Rock

Fireball Lights Up the Skies Over St. Louis During Northern Taurid Meteor Shower

How to Make a Black Hole in a Science Lab

Samsung’s ‘Space Selfie’ Satellite Plummets From Sky Onto Michigan Horse Farm

Elon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan’s Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $5 Million

Check Out NASA’s Look for the Next Lunar Landing

Ad Astra‘s Existential Crisis Got Me Playing…Destiny Again?

Elon Musk Unveils His Gigantic Starship Prototype, Says It’ll Be Flying Within Months

These Three Supermassive Black Holes Could One Day Join Forces

What Ad Astra Gets Wrong About Space Travel, Astronomy, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Area 51, Impossible Burger, and Duck Gifs: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

The Story Behind That Delightful Ad Astra Cameo

Ad Astra Is One of the Best Space Movies in Years

Apple’s Big iPhone Event, Labor Wins Big, and Skeletal Panic Hormones: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Ad Astra Director Broke the Rules of Space for Brad Pitt’s Acting

Poll: Slightly Over Half of People in the UK Want to Get Us All Killed by Aliens, Probably

Tom Hanks Will Play an Astronaut Again for Mattel’s Live-Action Major Matt Mason Movie

I Made Amazing Images of Galaxies and Nebulas in Minutes Using This Idiot-Proof Automatic Telescope

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