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

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that shouldn't be the case at all.

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

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

This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe, depicts the relatively uniform brightness ...

The cloud, named Eos after the Greek goddess of dawn, had eluded researchers because it contains very little carbon monoxide ...

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

Bode's Galaxy has an apparent magnitude of +6.94, making it one of the brightest galaxies visible in the Northern Hemisphere.