Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Stargazing dreams come true at this Pennsylvania park, with pitch-dark skies that reveal the Milky Way in stunning detail.

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...

A series of high-resolution simulations has revealed a striking new perspective on theMilky Way’s position in the cosmos. Far ...

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's magnetic field, revealing that it is far more complex than previously ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...