Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

It's the Cosmic Cafe, a seasonal sandwiches-and-more spot located at Mt. Wilson Observatory. By "seasonal" we simply mean ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

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 image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array puts the James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the Sagittarius C region in context. The MeerKAT image spans 1,000 light ...

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 ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At the heart of our galaxy, in the turbulent region surrounding the ...

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 ...