Space

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

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

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

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

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

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon be on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live in

Dozens of runaway stars were captured fleeing a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid that keeps pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called