Space

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

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

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

At age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how lots of people

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon be on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live in

Imagine going on a week-long business trip and not coming home until next year. That may be the case for

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

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