Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

All of your questions are answered by the new Star Wars Galactic Map.The map divvies up the Star Wars galaxy into important ...

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

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A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

The original post-Empire galaxy was full of criminal syndicates vying for power, and a power vacuum exploited by a familiar ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

In a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way, the galactic core contains more stars and hence gravity than the outer arms do. This should mean that the objects closer to the core spin around faster than ...