A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling, interactive cosmic panorama with unprecedented detail.

Alligator Alcatraz is causing light pollution in one of the first designated "dark skies" in the eastern United States.

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For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

A fantastic new discovery has given astronomy an unexpected window into the formation of life-precursor molecules in an ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Natasha Hurley-Walker receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Silvia Mantovanini does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

In one telling, the outcome of US President Donald Trump’s recent Asia swing does not deserve the “win-win” tag it has widely been getting. In this view, the seeming goodwill – after all the gifting, ...