Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The image shows the bright Milky Way galaxy stretching high across the sky horizon just above the horizon of Earth as sunrise occurs ... on the ISS enable us to see the stunning beauty of the ...

This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...