In 1897, Nelson and Lorraine Cornish left Oakland and came to Santa Cruz to live,” writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. “When ...

Varda Space Industries is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for successfully launching a first-of-its-kind in-orbit ...

Astroscale is a 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair winner for developing a satellite designed to rendezvous with space junk, with the ...

My 5-year-old nephew once confidently told me that all dinosaurs were green because his three dinosaur toys were green. So I showed him a nature documentary, Walking with Dinosaurs, and suddenly, ...

Rather than the fearsome enemies of movies like "The Terminator," as we move into the universe, AIs can be our partners, our ...

Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...

Robotic and autonomous systems will continue to lead space exploration, preparing safe environments for human activity.

Elif Yüksel is a Turkish pioneer in space diplomacy and space policy. She is a Fulbright Scholar, Space Policy Institute ...

NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a short-notice mission ...

The regular Short Wave science roundup covers mysterious red dots in space, the neurons behind optical illusions and a study ...