Space

For the first time, astronomers have watched gas boil and bubble on the surface of a distant star. Scientists observed […]

The biggest clash in cosmology might be inching closer to resolution, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope.  Scientists disagree

Satellites hampering radio astronomy — Science News, October 5, 1974 In the past, the satellites and probes launched by NASA

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! The red supergiant that marks Orion’s left shoulder may have a tiny, unseen companion. Two independent studies found

As the youthful universe congealed under the pull of gravity, matter knotted itself into galaxies, galaxy clusters and filaments, weaving

A distant stellar nursery holds a cluster of newborn worlds the size of Jupiter, the smallest of which is surrounded

For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in Earth’s atmosphere. This field, called the ambipolar

The opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever

While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling Internet access and mobile communications around the globe, they are also posing a threat

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid that keeps pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called