They slip through your skin, your walls, and the whole Earth without leaving a mark. Neutrinos earn the nickname “ghost ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling cosmic panorama that reveals supernova remnants, stellar nurseries, pulsars ...

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to build the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever attempted.

A new radio survey reveals that the Milky Way’s magnetic field is intricate, widespread, and deeply connected to how the galaxy is organized.

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's magnetic field, revealing that it is far more complex than previously ...

Benita Albert brings us part two of the two-part series on the career of Bob Benjamin. His career interest in astronomy began soon after graduating from Oak Ridge High School. You will find it ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest ...

This week in space we've got some beautiful maps of both the galaxy and NASA's next asteroid target, 16 Psyche. The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to science and there's a planetary ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’ve probably heard of space telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb. They’re famous for giving us breathtaking ...

The Milky Way is not the serene, flat disc that textbook illustrations suggest. Astronomers have confirmed that the outer ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.