Space

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contrary to a previous report, there is no evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s