Nuclear fusion has moved from punchline to pitch deck, with tech giants, oil majors and governments all racing to claim a ...

While billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are focused on building rockets to reach space and other planets, former ...

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

Across the sky, astronomers are stitching together vast samples of galaxies to understand how often supermassive black holes ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy.

Scientists had a rough year in 2025. As always, experts from all disciplines arrived at some groundbreaking conclusions, a small but critical portion of which we’ve highlighted in our annual Gizmodo ...

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt aims to fly the first private space telescope by 2029. Will it pave the way for more private ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the ...