How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars? That’s easy, right? A galaxy is a large collection of millions ...

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory helped diagnose the cause behind a large kink in a huge filament near the center of the ...

Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

Now, Gaia has uncovered a star family unlike any seen before—a massive group of over 1,000 young stars behaving in an ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

A cosmic "bone" at the heart of the Milky Way appears to be fractured. Looking at the break, astronomers found a radio source.

A rare Egyptian coffin image may show the Milky Way crossing the sky-goddess Nut, says a University of Portsmouth scientist.

The Milky Way may have been painted across ancient Egyptian coffins thousands of years ago—and now, one scientist believes he ...

Initially, the astronomer who first made note of this fuzzy-looking glowing cluster thought it might be a nebula. But it’s ...

The town of Jackson and Teton County became official International DarkSky Communities for efforts to reduce light pollution. While many towns have ...

Researchers Find First Visual Representation of the Milky Way on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian Coffin Decoration For centuries, ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...