Snowdonia, also known as Eryri National Park in Wales, has been named the best UK destination to view the partial solar eclipse on Saturday, ...

From Hawaii to Iceland, researchers found the 10 best places to see the Northern Lights and stargaze across the world.

ALMA’s amazingly high resolution has sharpened the view of the tempestuous churn in Milky Way’s central zone. This area, surrounding the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), acts as a kind ...

It challenges what we know about how galaxies form. Picture a galaxy like our own Milky Way: a flat, rotating structure made up of stars, gas and dust, often surrounded by an extensive halo of unseen ...

With the power of the James Webb Space Telescope, anyone can see it.” A scientist has requested astronomers recalibrate Milky Way distance measurements (NASA) Although Shamir isn’t certain why a large ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the characteristics of cosmic dust in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study ...

The saltscape isn’t just the flattest place on Earth’s surface, it also doubles as the largest natural mirror.

To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method to identify radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes within the archives of the Low-Frequency Array telescope, or LOFAR, a network of ...

This filament, spanning nearly nine times the diameter of the Milky Way, offers valuable information on galaxy formation and cosmic evolution. Astronomers have detected an enormous cosmic filament ...