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

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.

Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy ...

Scientists have found evidence for a cosmic collision in the Perseus cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies not far from ...

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

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

Alexandria Echo Press reporter Lisa Johnson and Astro Bob talk about the Milky Way, galaxies in Virgo, and Bob's latest award ...

First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, appears to be ionized (meaning it is electrically charged because it has lost electrons) at a ...

OREO, cherished worldwide for its special bond with milk as epitomized by the “OREO dunk”, has reimagined this classic ritual ...