Space

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

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

One of the most compelling possible signs of extraterrestrial communication may have an astrophysical explanation. Called “Wow!” signal, the bright

A distant stellar nursery holds a cluster of newborn worlds the size of Jupiter, the smallest of which is surrounded

Dozens of runaway stars were caught escaping from a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

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

The biggest conundrum in cosmology may be closer to being solved, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists disagree

For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in Earth’s atmosphere. This field, called the ambipolar

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

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom may be careening into the solar system without being noticed. But