Space

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

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

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

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

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

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

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