Astronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding designated the Matthews family homestead, Milky Way Farm, as a prestigious ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The regions near the centers of galaxies are extreme from many perspectives. In ours in particular, the density of stars is the highest in the Milky Way. Let’s look at the numbers: in the neighborhood ...

NASA launched the SPHEREx telescope to explore the universe's origins and search for water in the Milky Way. Meanwhile, fossils in Spain suggest a potentially new human species, altering our ...