Space

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

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

Satellites hampering radio astronomy — Science News, October 5, 1974 In the past, the satellites and probes launched by NASA

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

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

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. 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

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