Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

A remarkable new study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered shocking details about a star-forming region ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

A Milky Way twin in the early Universe Among these discoveries ... distant objects that challenge galaxy formation models." It was previously believed that spiral structures took billions of years to ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

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

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests. Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky ...

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that ...

Scientists found a fast-scattering star cluster called Ophion. Unlike usual clusters, it shows chaotic motion and breaks ...