Space

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

For the first time, astronomers have seen gas boiling and bubbling on the surface of a distant star. Scientists observed

While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling Internet access and mobile communications around the globe, they are also posing a threat

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

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

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