A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...

An enormously detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy has just been published by a team of astronomers led by Vatican Observatory adjunct scholar Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory staff ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

Mercury is well placed in the SW evening skies the first two weeks of November, but is lost in its glare by Thanksgiving.

The James Webb Space Telescope has possibly identified brown dwarfs beyond the Milky Way for the first time, offering new insights into how stars formed in the early universe. Located in the star ...

Remember that amazing 'first image' of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A) black hole at the heart of the Milky Way? Well ... Sgr A* resulting in the 2022 image release was the first detailed attempt to map the ...

The first-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Image: EHT Collaboration A team of researchers from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory ...