Space

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

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

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

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

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

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, astronomers have seen gas boiling and bubbling on the surface of a distant star. Scientists observed

The opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever

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