Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

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The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

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At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

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

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...