As the Qixi Festival approaches on August 29, many will reflect on the ancient myth of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, who are separated by the Milky Way and can only reunite once a year. However, in ...

It may sound like science fiction, but imagining a battle between a gas giant and a black hole helps us understand just how ...

A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behaviour of ...

Is the night sky ever really dark? In a word, no. Anyone who's ever walked their dog at night knows that when you step out ...

And water, along with carbon monoxide, also has been detected in the most massive galaxy in the early universe which is located nearly 12.88 billion light years from Earth. Detection of these two ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, including Ohio.

Video. Malorie Thorson braved a chilled booth as sculptor Gerry Kulzer carved her likeness from a 41-kilogram block of butter ...

Malorie Thorson, the newly crowned 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way, has embraced a unique tradition at the Minnesota State ...

Scientists for the first time have spotted the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare peek into stellar ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...