Meet Porphyrion, the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen
Advertisements Opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever…
How did dark matter shape the universe? This physicist has ideas
Advertisements At age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how lots of…
Starlink satellites’ leaky radio waves obscure the cosmos
Advertisements While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling internet access and cell phone communications around the globe, they’re also posing a…
Barnard’s star has at least one planet orbiting it after all
Advertisements A red dwarf star known as Barnard’s star, which lies a mere six light-years from our solar system, has…
Betelgeuse has a tiny companion star hidden in plain sight
Advertisements Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! The red supergiant that marks Orion’s left shoulder may have a tiny, unseen companion. Two independent studies…
Astronauts are actually stuck in space all the time
Advertisements Imagine going on a week-long business trip and not coming home until next year. That may be the case…
A distant quasar may be circling all the galaxies around it
Advertisements One of the most distant quasars known appears to have shut down the formation of new stars in all…
The Webb Telescope’s look at a stellar nursery also finds minor planets
Advertisements A distant stellar nursery holds a cluster of newborn worlds the size of Jupiter, the smallest of which is…
2 spacecraft captured the waves that can heat and accelerate the solar wind
Advertisements A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker…
Scientists find long-sought electric field in Earth’s atmosphere
Advertisements For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in Earth’s atmosphere. This field, called the…