the universe

Dark matter physicists may have one of the most frustrating jobs in science. Their work deals with something that…

Is the universe’s expansion the same everywhere? New research suggests it’s not—which could have huge implications…

Scientists have detected radio waves emanating from the space between a pair of galaxy clusters—evidence of…

It is a routine emotion in 2019 to urgently wish, four or five times in a day, to be launched not simply into space…

Astronomers this week announced that they’d attempted to measure all of the starlight in the universe.

As we’re all essentially just killing time ahead of our inevitable death, Gizmodo this week explored death and…

Light’s speed limit means that looking into the distance is the same as looking into the past: The farther incoming…

Gravity is incredibly weak. Just think: You can lift your foot despite the mass of the entire Earth pulling against…

An ambitious use of the Hubble Space Telescope hopes to map some of the biggest, brightest, and furthest galaxies to…

The mere fact that we live in a universe boggles my mind every once in a while. But thankfully, our cosmic home is a…

You’re probably sitting still, right? Wrong, absolutely wrong. Not only are you on a spinning orb, but you’re also…

Scientists have spotted 13-billion-year-old oxygen in a distant galaxy—a signal of stars forming during the…

It’s an orgy of geometry, here on Earth. You got all kinds of shapes: Squares, trapezoids, even the occasional…

Eerie similarities unite vastly different scientific ideas in sometimes utterly surprising ways. One of these…

Pretty Scientific is a new Gizmodo series where we explore how the best images in science were created and why.

How do we find a tiny shred of self-understanding in this vast universe? More simply: how did we get here? A proper…

When you look up into the night sky, you see lots of stars—but all of them are members of our own Milky Way galaxy.…

We know that the universe is expanding, but a strange discrepancy in just how fast that expansion is occurring…

When you sweep across the FM radio band, you don’t always hear music—mostly, you hear static. Lots of this ambient…

Galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers—our Milky Way, for example, has its own 4-million-solar-mass…