The glorious river of stars, interwoven with dark dust, that makes up the plane of the Milky Way in the night sky may have ...

Arguably, the highlight for astrophotographers this month is comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN)’s brush with the Pleiades open cluster to ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

Tomb art suggests the sky goddess Nut from ancient Egypt might reveal the oldest depiction of our galaxy.

Ancient Egyptians appear to have depicted the Milky Way in their funerary art, according to a new study published in the ...