Space

The first glimpse of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical […]

Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun to trace the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the

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

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

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

While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling Internet access and mobile communications around the globe, they are also posing a threat

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

Satellites interfere with radio astronomy – Scientific news, October 5, 1974 In the past, satellites and probes launched by NASA

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

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might