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The Milky Way isn't flat: Here's why

When we look up and see the Milky Way as a pale band in the night sky, we’re only seeing a tiny slice of our galaxy. In this ...
A new picture from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a beautiful 'star-making factory' deep in the universe this ...
One task, you have. Find Baby Yoda, you must. The tracking fob, guide you it will. Where, begin your search, would you? It sounds like an easy task. But we wouldn't be scouring the 50 million systems ...
Paul McFarlane discusses why Nevada's geography makes it a great place to stargaze, what dark sky designations mean, and how ...
Radio signals have been travelling through space since 1906, forming Earth’s radio bubble. Now 119 light years wide, it covers about 75 star systems, the signals fading into noise ...
In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...
New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s essential elements through the galaxy may be incomplete. Starlight pushing on gra ...
With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.
As the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) prepares for first light in 2026, its journey to the high Atacama Desert of ...
Mars. From forming black holes to phantom dark energy, discover the cosmic mysteries astronomers uncovered last year.
Less than a year into its mission, NASA’s SPHEREx has already completed its first full survey of the sky, producing a near-infrared map that captures the entire cosmos in a staggering 102 colors.
First, the extra peanut-packed Snickers Extreme bar returned to shelves. Then, it announced the M&M’s Fan Vote would return ...