An enormously detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy has just been published by a team of astronomers led by Vatican ...

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 ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

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 ...

Detailed maps that pinpoint the positions of cells in tumours and probe the tumours’ biology are offering insights into the development of several cancers — including in the breast ...

The first image of our Milky Way's black hole, initially depicted as a bright ring, might not be accurate, according to a reanalysis by NAOJ scientists. They suggest the black hole, filled with ...

Remember that amazing 'first image' of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A) black hole at the heart of the Milky Way? Well, it may not be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...