With summer soon approaching, the Milky Way will become more visible in May, especially as the new moon makes the skies dark.

A spherical object lurking in our galaxy is so perfectly circular that astronomers can't explain how it was formed. Dubbed ...

Marvel at a seed’s amazing travels as it turns into a tree, explore fascinating facts, maps and flags of the world, discover ...

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 ...