Month: September 2026
A Strange Rock on the Moon’s Far Side May Help Solve a Decades-Old Magnetic Mystery
If true, it means our satellite once had its own magnetic field—and lost it over the course of...
Artemis 2 Set Out to Prove Orion Could Handle Deep Space. Here’s How It Delivered
The Artemis 2 mission sent astronauts back to the Moon aboard a spacecraft that had never flown humans...
China’s Answer to NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Could Reach Mach 2
The TMS-10 is entering final assembly before a planned test later this year.
A Deep-Space Shark Is Prowling the Cosmos—and the Photo Just Won a Major Award
The haunting beauty of the universe is on full display in this year's astrophotography competition.
Alarming Study Finds New Evidence That the Sun Can Produce Catastrophic ‘Superflares’
These explosive events can be more powerful than trillions of hydrogen bombs.
Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth
The team operating a remote chemistry lab onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover won a Gizmodo Science Fair award for...
SpaceX Is Retiring Crew Dragon, Forcing NASA to Bet Big on Boeing’s Troubled Starliner
What could possibly go wrong?
Astronomers Just Found the Youngest Planet Ever Seen. It Shouldn’t Be So Huge
Elias 2-24 b challenges even our best models of planet formation.
Cyberattack Takes Down Organization That’s Literally Just Trying to Track Meteors
Leave the astronomers alone.
