A group of astronomers led by Evuda Wempe, a graduate student from the Kaptein Institute in Groningen, discovered a giant ...

If you’ve spent your entire life looking at the night sky from a city or suburb, you’ve basically been watching the universe ...

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

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Astronomers produce the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

This time of the year is known as "Milky Way season," and Nevadans should be able to see the collection of stars without any special equipment, especially in darker areas away from city lights.

California stargazers can see the Milky Way without special equipment. Learn when and where to spot our galaxy's bright center.

A mysterious striped signal from the Crab Pulsar may finally be explained by a delicate balance between plasma effects and gravitational lensing.

The Tibet ASγ Experiment has successfully, for the first time, measured magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence on scales below one parsec (approximately ...

Mere days ago, a winter storm turned the Big Apple into an arctic tundra — but on this frigid late-January afternoon, Don Toliver has made the trek anyway to Manhattan’s famed ...

The Tibet ASγ Experiment has successfully, for the first time, measured magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence on scales below one parsec (approximately 3.3 light-years) within the gamma-ray halo ...