Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

VIRCAM managed to peer through the dust and gas that permeates our galaxy — it was therefore able to see the radiation from the Milky Way's usually hidden locations and painting a quite complete ...

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding ... Warning for 4 States—'Historic' Snowfall To Paralyze Traffic 4 Paint Color ...

The Girl Who Made the Milky Way,” a world premiere, family-friendly theatrical experience commissioned by Imagine Theatre, ...

Peering through telescopes, watching model meteors destroy model planets and playing dozens of informative games, ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

Even as the paint peeled away, it promised hospitality ... The same goes for those dark skies lit up with clear views of the Milky Way and Northern Lights. The Katos set up Adirondack chairs ...