"These proposed cuts will result in the loss of American leadership in science." — AAS American As-tronomical Society Board ...

The ELT is on its way to becoming the largest optical telescope in the world, and as it rises beneath some of the clearest ...

Rwanda says it's talking with the US about taking in third-country deportees. Here's why ...

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

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

and it presents the reader with an excellent account of the methods used to explore the Milky Way and to fathom some of its secrets. Here we have descriptions of the means by which astronomers ...

The Church frontman Steve Kilbey had no idea he was sitting on an Australian classic when the band played Under the Milky Way for record executives for the first time.

The immensely dense object is one of 30 known magnetars in the Milky Way, which are the dead remnants of stars composed entirely of neutrons. Measuring just 20 kilometres across, Magnetar SGR 0501 ...

Astronomers found a fast-moving 'zombie star' in the Milky Way. This magnetar, named SGR 0501+4516, has a strong magnetic field. It travels at 110,000 mph. Discovered in 2008, it's 15,000 light ...

Zhúlóng, a galaxy eerily similar to the Milky Way, has been discovered in the early universe, just 1 billion years post-Big Bang. Its mature structure defies standard galaxy formation theories.