Space

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

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

While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling internet access and cell phone communications around the globe, they’re also posing a threat

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

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days

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

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar

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

For the first time, astronomers have seen gas boiling and bubbling on the surface of a distant star. Scientists observed

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