Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

The Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, highlights a contradiction in our understanding of alien life: despite ...

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

Did you know that the sun is up for more hours this month than in August? August is summertime, and May is still spring, so it may not seem quite right.

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

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

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

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole in the Milky Way. The unprecedented find was made possible through gravitational lensing ...

However, scientists say that there is a way humanity could travel millions ... As the ball warps the sheet, a planet bends the fabric of space-time, creating the force that we feel as gravity.

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 ...