Milky Way catfish can reach just over 4 inches in ... →‘Dragon’ creature — found in depths of Antarctica seas — is a new species. See it →Desert creature covered in ‘large’ spikes ...

[Credit: NASA] A NASA C-130 Hercules successfully made its first flight to Antarctica on Saturday ... in December to map a portion of the Milky Way and nearby Large Magellanic Cloud.

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests. Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

Credit: The ANSMET (ANtarctic Search for METeorites) Program, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Utah. The chemical composition of a meteorite could shake up scientists ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

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

Japanese astronomers are among an international research team that successfully captured the first image of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way ... Hawaii, Antarctica and three other ...

The Antarctic ice sheets expanded ... “We are inhabitants of the Milky Way,” said João Alves, an astrophysicist at the ...

The "Three Gorges Antarctic Eye" has officially begun scientific observations of the Milky Way's neutral hydrogen and ammonia molecular spectral lines, providing vital data to help unravel the ...