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

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

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way’s most important features cannot be ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

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

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...

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

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

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

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

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

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