Weather along Oregon’s coast is famously changeable, and Oceanside exemplifies this characteristic. Summer brings the most ...

That’s Daisy State Park in a nutshell – 276 acres of pure Arkansas magic tucked away in the tiny town of Kirby. I’ve eaten my ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic anomaly that challenges our understanding of the universe. An international ...

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

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 ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our galaxy. As part of Expedition 72, Pettit and his team conduct crucial ...

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In the background, the gassy, oblong Milky Way is visible. The Milky Way is seen edge-on, meaning that the photo looks across the galaxy’s diameter. The photo was taken with a camera using low ...