Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Night-sky tourism, or "noctourism," is set to be a major travel driver this coming year, Booking.com predicts. Why it matters ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution map of waterways, created by the US Geological Survey, is the highest-resolution survey of its kind. With nearly 25 million rivers, streams, pipe ...

She referred to past adverts for Milky Way and Cadbury’s Fudge: “Does advertising work? Of course it does. “And I’m sure those in the House of a similar age to me, if I say to them ‘the red car and ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

Last week, a full moon lit up the sky but it was another celestial moment, one that’s more rare, that wowed sky-gazers and ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it could help explain why these strange outbursts occur..