Space

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

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

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

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

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