Space

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

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

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

A new look at decades-old data from the Apollo missions has revealed evidence of tens of thousands of previously unknown

As more and more species come close to extinction, scientists have been collecting samples of animals, plants and other creatures

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

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