When asked to sample Godiva chocolate bars, how could we refuse? We tasted each of the flavors available and ranked them ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...

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Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way. Measuring 3.3 million light-years from end-to-end, the cosmic megastructure ...

In about 4.5 billion years, the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast ...

1958) Astronomers also used RR Lyrae and Cepheids, two types of variable ... map the Milky Way. In the 1980s, infrared telescopes like NASA's IRAS peered through cosmic dust to help find features like ...

And it’s an economical way to enjoy some of our city’s upscale spots. But practicality isn’t the only reason to belly up to the bar for a meal. Sometimes — often, in fact — the bar of a ...