Space

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

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

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

To leave a lasting trail, meteors must aim downward. A new study of shooting stars shows that meteors that blaze

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

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

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

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