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

Bright stars visible during May mornings include Arcturus in the west; Vega nearly overhead; with nearby Altair and Deneb completing the Summer Triangle; Antares in the southwest; and Fomalhaut rising ...

The planetarium, located at 100 Center Ave., is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday ...

There are tens of billions of Sun-like stars in the Milky Way, an immense tally that encourages the possibility that ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

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

A new study from the NASA New Horizons mission team at the Southwest Research Institute have resulted in a first-of-its-type ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

To find Ophion, scientists used a new machine-learning computer tool to analyze data from Gaia, which mapped the galaxy for more than a decade but recently retired because it ran out of fuel. Though ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...