A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

By demonstrating the ability for joint observations at the short radio wavelength of 0.87mm, the Event Horizon Telescope has ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The reddish structures of our neighboring galaxy glow brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Here in the Lowcountry, the Milky Way often rises out over the Atlantic Ocean... meaning, beautiful views from our beaches at ...

His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine. It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening ...

Matthew Dominick/NASA A NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has shared a breathtaking time-lapse video featuring Earth, an aurora, the Milky Way, and the station itself.

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

Rare images of light refracting through the wings of birds taken by Andrew Fusek Peters have also made the final of the ...

On a mountaintop in southern Brazil, a scaly creature with a “unique” color pattern swam through the river water. It ...

“This year we saw some of the most beautiful photos from around the world that ... city dwellers to ever see stars, let alone the Milky Way. The arc of our galaxy—visible right now straight ...

Sagittarius A* (pronounced Sagittarius A Star), the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, is spinning in an unusual way, and scientists now believe they may know why. Based on ...