Google Earth vs. HQ Trivia

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Flashlight continues to be an unstoppable force and it eliminated Evernote in yesterday’s contest, taking more than 66 percent of the vote. Today, we have two apps that have gotten a lot of love so far but one has … Read more

Earth on the brink of a key warming threshold after chart-busting year

A wind change increased flames during a planned ignition on the Ross Moore Lake wildfire in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday, July 28, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Last year — the hottest on record — smashed a series of climate records and gave new meaning to the phrase “off the charts,” … Read more

ISS Space Junk Reenters Earth Atmosphere Battery Pallet

The cargo pallet after being tossed by the by the Canadarm2 robotic arm in 2021.Photo: NASA On Friday, March 8, a pallet of used batteries from the International Space Station (ISS) reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the Gulf of Mexico following an unpredictable journey through orbit. Taking out the Trash (in Space) The pallet contained nine … Read more

‘Alien’ object that crashed into Earth has a much funnier explanation

Well folks, it’s still not aliens. It’s common for speeding rocks from space to blow up in our atmosphere, events called “fireballs.” In 2014, such a meteor exploded over the Pacific Ocean, somewhere near Papua New Guinea. An intrigued group of scientists led by Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb — who to the chagrin of the … Read more

An ‘RNA World’ Could Have Kickstarted Life on Earth

Researchers seeking to understand how life may have emerged from Earth’s primordial soup have found an interesting behavior of ribonucleic acid (RNA), which they suggest could have given way to RNA-based life. The Epitome of 14 inch Gaming | Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 Review The team’s research, published this week in the Proceedings of the … Read more

Broken moon lander beams back a final poignant photo — of Earth

A spacecraft on the moon is lying on its side. It snapped a leg while landing. And now it’s lost power. But before the freezing, two-week lunar night swept over Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander, the robotic craft beamed back one final transmission from space. It shows the cratered grey surface spreading to the lunar … Read more

Odysseus Lunar Lander Sent a Farewell Photo of Earth: Now What?

Goodbye, Odie. On Thursday, Houston-based space-exploration company Intuitive Machines bade farewell to Odysseus, the lunar lander that took the US to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. The lander had been there for a week and will remain on the moon’s surface, inoperable but remembered as a historic achievement in the … Read more

The Last Airbender Live-Action Trailer Shows Closer Look At Earth Kingdom City & King Bhumi

Netflix releases the newest trailer for the Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action show, giving an expanded look at its fantasy world. This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. Summary “Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action adaptation gets closer to release … Read more

A Mars Rover Saw Enormous Dark Patches on the Sun, and Now They’re Visible From Earth

A striking set of gigantic sunspots, first spotted from Mars and now designated AR3576, is currently facing Earth, capturing the attention of astronomers, space enthusiasts, and concerned space weather forecasters. Hurricanes and Climate | Extreme Earth The cluster, nicknamed the “Martian sunspots,” was first discovered by NASA’s Perseverance rover using its MastCam in the final … Read more

I Made the Ugliest PlayStation 5 Using Sony’s New ‘Deep Earth’ Colors

Each panel on the PlayStation 5 can be swapped out individually, so we decided to go with something a little off the rails.Photo: Angel Fajardo / Gizmodo What wasn’t obvious about the new slimmer version of the PlayStation 5 was that each individual panel can be removed individually. Unlike the original PS5, the black bar … Read more