Although the telescope is just getting started on its mission, it has already delivered some impressive snapshots of the dark ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning ...

As astronomers peer through telescopes across the cosmos, dust clouds may distort the light from distant objects, altering observations.

Japanese researchers have developed a deep-learning model that identifies previously unknown bubble-like structures in the ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the characteristics of cosmic dust in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method to identify radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes within the ...

The Milky Way Galaxy Nestled in the heart of Namibia, the NamibRand Nature Reserve offers an unparalleled view of the Milky ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...