A new map of the Milky Way’s atomic hydrogen, anchored by precise distances to young Cepheid stars, reveals the galaxy’s gas disk is highly clumped and flocculent rather than smooth.

A threatened Australian insect joins the exclusive club of celestial navigators.

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It's an impressive feat for Bogong moths, whose brains are smaller than the size of a grain of rice, to rely on the night sky ...

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

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 ...

Step outside on a clear night, trace the hazy stripe of the Milky Way and enjoy the comfortable illusion that you more or ...

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

Astronomers reveal a new map of the Milky Way, showing a clumpy gas structure in its outer disk. The discovery reshapes how we understand our galaxy’s shape and evolution. The post New Map of ...

Bogong moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in ...