Space

The first glimpse of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical […]

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

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

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live in the ocean

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

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be traced back to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and

This exoplanet’s atmosphere is going full steam ahead. A planet beyond our solar system called GJ 9827d has an atmosphere

Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun to trace the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the