Space

Some of the apparent quirks of Uranus may be due to bad timing. In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew […]

Some massive stars can go out with a bang, not a bang. A star that blinked out of view may

The opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever

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

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

A red dwarf star known as Barnard’s Star, located just six light-years from our solar system, has at least one

Satellites interfere with radio astronomy – Scientific news, October 5, 1974 In the past, satellites and probes launched by NASA

Dozens of runaway stars were caught escaping from a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

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