Space

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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