Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Long before GPS, explorers used the stars to cross oceans and deserts. Here’s how they turned the night sky into a ...

A ‘superflare’ 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun is confirmed as the record-holder for both luminosity and distance.

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...

Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud ...

The Beaver full moon is slated for Wednesday, Nov. 5, and it will be the largest and brightest supermoon of 2025. Here's what ...