Durham Regional Police say officers found a victim with a stab wound when they responded to a 1:10 a.m. call at a residence ...

Astronomers have discovered that the sun had a close encounter with two blazingly hot massive stars around 4.4 million years ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Scientists discover the largest-known rotating cosmic filament, a 50M light-year structure of galaxies, gas and dark matter spinning in space.

Taken together, these studies illustrate that the Milky Way’s spiral arms are not just smooth arcs of stars, but dynamic, ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

For decades, astronomers have mapped the Milky Way using visible light, but much of our galaxy has remained hidden behind ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Multiple San Diego Fire-Rescue Department crews have been working through the night to extinguish a large fire involving hundreds of rolled and stacked hay bales.

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

Crews said that it has been hard to get to the fires because they were still smoldering inside rolls and stacks of hay.