The new radio portrait of the Milky Way is the most sensitive, widest-area map at these low frequencies to date. It will ...

Astronomers reveal an incredible new radio view of our Galaxy ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...

Three photographers were able to capture the red sprite phenomenon, when lightning flashes above thunderstorms, in high ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way divide their stars between a thin disk and a thick disk. Slicing through the central bulge of our galaxy, the younger and smaller thin disk is thought to contain the ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars. "Milky Way season," when the galaxy's ...

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...

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A time-lapse from the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra shows a Milky Way dancing its way across a star-studded sky. AP video by Ghaith Alsayed The wonders of the universe played out against a ...