It’s a clash of gods, science, lava, stars, and the law for the Thirty-Meter Telescope in Hawaii. The would-be new largest telescope on the planet just had its construction permit yanked by the Hawaii ...

The Geological Association of Canada has awarded its E.R. Ward Medal to SETI Institute researcher Mika McKinnon. McKinnon is recognized “for innovative, engaging, and impactful communication of the ...

Light pollution took the Milky Way away from you. In this essay, Mika McKinnon explains how you can get it back. https://gizmodo.com/an-ode-to-dark-skies-1550074003 ...

What happens when your production budget consists of water, soap, food colouring, and maybe a bit of magnetic goo? If you’re the filmmaker responsible for this music video, the result is a beautiful ...

It’d be such a shame to lose this fragile, watery planet to an asteroid strike. NASA’s newly-formalized Planetary Defense Coordination Office will do its best to save us — money and physics permitting ...

Clean animation + accurate cosmology + English accent = win, even if they did gloss over the whole, mistook the cosmic microwave background radiation as birdshit so stationed a student by the ...

How Will a New Clock Keep Good Time Even in Deep Space? Navigating in deep space is tricky, particularly when you need to keep up interplanetary synchronized clocks. NASA is convinced we can do better ...

The year 2015 will go down as many things, but normal isn’t one of them. We saw record-smashing temperatures, exceptional droughts, deadly heat waves and massive wildfires. Add in earthquakes, ...

A fine haze of ice particles transformed this landscape into an otherworldly scene The creature reveals ancient connection between Africa, Europe, and Asia after the great Pangea broke apart South ...