Space

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

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

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

A red dwarf star known as Barnard’s star, which lies a mere six light-years from our solar system, has at

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

As more and more species come close to extinction, scientists have been collecting samples of animals, plants and other creatures

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

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