​ Record-Holding Astronaut to Command Axiom’s $70 Million-a-Seat Trip to the ISS (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) Axiom Space, a Houston-based spaceflight company, is preparing to launch its fourth mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from NASA’s Kennedy Space

​ Mars Orbiter Captures Rare View of Ancient Volcano Poking Above the Clouds (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) Floating in orbit above Mars, NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured a panorama of the Red Planet’s biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, peeking

​ NASA Pulls the Plug on Europa Lander, but Scientists Propose a Plan B (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) NASA engineers have spent the past decade developing a rugged, partially autonomous lander designed to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s most

​ These Two Galaxy Clusters Are About to Smash Into Each Other—Again (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) Roughly 2.8 billion light-years from Earth, two galaxy clusters are engaged in a cosmic tussle. These enormous structures last collided about a billion

​ In the Feud Between Trump and Musk, NASA Has a Lot to Lose (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) In the heat of the moment, Elon Musk threatened to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and then he took it back. In

​ Trump Pulled His NASA Pick, But Jared Isaacman Would’ve Rebuilt the Moon Program (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) Shortly after Donald Trump withdrew his nomination for Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, the billionaire private astronaut revealed what he would

​ Private Japanese Lander Crashes Into the Moon in Second Failed Attempt (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) A private Japanese spacecraft crashed into the Moon while attempting the country’s first commercial lunar landing on Thursday, June 5, the company has

​ Astronomers Discover Most Energetic Cosmic Explosions Ever Observed (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) Astronomers in Hawaii have discovered a new kind of explosion, and they’re the most energetic stellar explosions ever recorded. Meet “extreme nuclear transients” (ENTs): when supermassive

​ ISS Conference Scrapped as NASA Budget Cuts Threaten Crew and Cargo (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) The International Space Station (ISS) still has a few years left in orbit before it’s due for retirement, but the future of the

​ Upcoming Telescope Predicted to Discover Millions of Hidden Solar System Objects (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) A new observatory perched high in the Chilean Andes is about to blow the lid off our solar system—and scientists say it’s going