Space

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

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

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

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

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! The red supergiant that marks Orion’s left shoulder may have a tiny, unseen companion. Two independent studies found

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

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

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