After 47 years of groundbreaking discoveries, Voyager 2's Plasma Science Experiment has been turned off—here’s why NASA made ...

Scientists in China have revealed a new map of the Milky Way, painted in gamma glow, which challenges conventional theories ...

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) detected the magnetic field streamlines shown over this image of the Keyhole Nebula. Astronomers combined several Hubble Space Telescope ...

Microquasars within the Milky Way, like V4641 Sagittarii, have been discovered to emit photons with energy levels previously ...

Social media users were captivated by the incredible view in the viral clip, with one saying: "My jaw has never dropped so ...

Modeling predicts that galaxies in the early universe should have formed inside-out. Now, a new observation from the James ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb ...

The dung beetle's galactic guidance system is launching a new era in navigation technology, proving that sometimes the best ...

It takes the Earth one year to orbit all the way around the sun. But the sun’s path around the Milky Way is much bigger. It ...

Striking. Vibrant. Dazzling. The adjectives to describe our universe are infinite. And nowhere is that on display more than ...

Carbon dioxide’s role in warming early exoplanetary atmospheres is likely necessary to create a habitable zone. But it could ...

Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet ...