Space

A red dwarf star known as Barnard’s star, which lies a mere six light-years from our solar system, has at […]

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

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

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

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

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon be on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live in

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

A distant stellar nursery holds a cluster of newborn worlds the size of Jupiter, the smallest of which is surrounded