Space

Satellites hampering radio astronomy — Science News, October 5, 1974 In the past, the satellites and probes launched by NASA […]

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

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

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

Dozens of fugitive stars were caught fleeing a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The

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

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

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