The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

Among the wreckage of the Milky Way — where the violent deaths of stars usually leave chaos and crumpled shells — astronomers ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

There's a big diamond in the sky made by connecting the stars Arcturus, Spica, Denebola and Cor Caroli. Once found, you can ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Astronomyreveals an unprecedented look at the turbulent magnetic forces shaping ...

The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small ...

The Milky Way is making its first major appearance of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and it’s set to be visible across ...

In this new work, the scale of the simulations demanded a computational effort comparable to running 140,000 computers at the ...

Astronomers have developed a groundbreaking computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) -- the vast ocean of gas and charged ...

Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more ...