Pillars of enchanting red rocks. Secret slot canyons. Endless acres of beautiful public lands. Welcome to Highway 12 in Utah, ...

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 elephant calf, which fell into an abandoned well at Kumbalathodu, near Mekkapala forest station, was rescued and released into the wild by forest officials on Saturday morning. According to ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy, dust and gases constantly churn as energetic shock waves ...

Scientists have discovered that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is larger than should be expected considering the size of our local galactic neighborhood. A viral video of a giant red moon rising ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

The new image is an up-close view of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would ... “The pulses have much lower energies than FRBs and ...

An image of the Milky ... Way lies a bustling region near to the galaxy’s supermassive black hole, where stars are born. But something strange is happening there: the rate of star formation is ...