Space

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

For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in the Earth’s atmosphere. This field, called the

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

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

As more and more species come close to extinction, scientists have been collecting samples of animals, plants and other creatures

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

One of the most compelling possible signs of extraterrestrial communication may have an astrophysical explanation. It’s called “Wow!” signal, the

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