Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night sky shines ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

The Milky Way is really something to see — but not this month, when it’s at the level of the horizon before midnight. (The Columbian files) Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way ...

For the clearest view of the Milky Way, aim for nights with no cloud cover or moonlight Stargazers in the UAE can watch the Milky Way from May to October The American Museum of Natural History ...

A dense population of compact objects near the Milky Way’s center generates overlapping gravitational waves, creating a background that could obscure signals from binary black holes with masses ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes, researchers believe a fast ...

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This depiction is thought to illustrate the Great Rift, a band of dust and gas that appears to split the Milky Way in two. While this is the clearest known evidence for the ancient Egyptians ...

Featuring over 100 singers and 24 iconic songs from the Land Down Under’s greatest artists, Under the Milky Way is a powerful celebration of Australian music that spans generations, genres ...

Just as Zeiss was completing its first projector, astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that other galaxies exist beyond our Milky Way galaxy. The stars shown on the dome in Munich in 1925 turned out ...