Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Named for the pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation helped prove the existence of dark matter, the ...

There’s a place in western North Carolina where the mountains ripple like waves on a blue-green ocean, where clouds cast dramatic shadows across ancient peaks, and where locals sometimes “accidentally ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

The research vessel that sampled a milky sea in 1985 found bioluminescent bacteria and a type of algae that “emits this mucus that calms the ocean’s surface,” Hudson says. This could account ...

The view of the Milky Way lit up the night sky at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.

AI Reveals Milky Way’s Black Hole Spins Near Top Speed Date: June 15, 2025 Source: Morgridge Institute for Research Summary: AI has helped astronomers crack open some of the universe s best-kept ...

Surveying the Giant H ii Regions of the Milky Way with SOFIA. VII. Galactic Center Regions Sgr B1, Sgr B2, and Sgr C. The Astrophysical Journal, 2025; 983 (1): 66 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adbbd9; ...