Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

The Milky Way is not the calm, flat starry disk many of us learned about in school. Astronomers are now tracking a colossal, curling disturbance that ripples through our Galaxy’s disk, lifting and ...

In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University set out to answer a question nobody asked but everyone secretly needed ...

All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

How can star populations help astronomers re-evaluate the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, also called ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

My maternal great-grandfather was a grand dragon in the KKK. My uncle has a pic of him in his robe, in his coffin, out in a ...