A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine brighter than anything currently visible in the night sky. But ...

The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about 627 kilometers per second. In the νHDM model, this value fits nicely within the predicted range, due to the way ...

Milky seas are a rare bioluminescent phenomenon ... forged from sea-faring ships of the 17th century all the way to spaceships of modern times, we begin to build a bridge from folklore to ...

Scientists think the two galaxies passed through each other, giving a preview of the inevitable collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies. Our galaxy is predicted to collide with ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

Describing drawing pubs as a "fun way to discover the city" - Frank says he regularly gets the opportunity to add personal touches to his drawings. “I’ve got to work on some really lovely ...

"These stories give adults and children a shared experience to talk about real-life situations in a fun and nonconfrontational way." Drawing from his experience as a librarian, Dethlefsen was ...