Space

The biggest clash in cosmology might be inching closer to resolution, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope.  Scientists disagree […]

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

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

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

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

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar

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