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

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift" ...

Near the center of the Milky Way are enormous filaments of radio energy that sometimes look like bones, and one in particular ...

How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars? That’s easy, right? A galaxy is a large collection of millions ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date.

The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

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

In 1983, the Infrared Astronomy Satellite surveyed the universe for a year. In 2006, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the infrared satellite AKARI, which was active until 2011.