Space

For the first time, astronomers have watched gas boil and bubble on the surface of a distant star. Scientists observed […]

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

To leave a lasting trail, meteors must aim downward. A new study of shooting stars shows that meteors that blaze

One of the most distant quasars known appears to have shut down the formation of new stars in all galaxies

One of the most compelling possible signs of extraterrestrial communication may have an astrophysical explanation. It’s called “Wow!” signal, the

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

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