Space

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

At age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how lots of people

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

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

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

Imagine going on a week-long business trip and not coming home until next year. That may be the case for

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

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