Space

Imagine going on a weeklong business trip and not coming home until the following year. That may be the situation […]

For millennia, humans have seen inexplicable things in the sky. Some have been beautiful, some have been terrifying, and some

A new look at decades-old data from the Apollo missions has uncovered evidence of tens of thousands of previously unrecognized

NASA’s Perseverance rover has bagged its first hint of ancient microbes on Mars. “We’re not able to say that this

Contrary to a previous report, there’s no evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s most

One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days

For the first time, astronomers have watched gas boil and bubble on the surface of a distant star. Scientists observed

Opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever seen.