Space

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

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

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

Opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever seen.

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

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

One of the most distant quasars known appears to have shut down the formation of new stars in all galaxies

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