Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you ...

A threatened Australian insect joins the exclusive club of celestial navigators.

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations Perseus and Taurus. An ancient supernova could be the culprit.

A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under ...

It's an impressive feat for Bogong moths, whose brains are smaller than the size of a grain of rice, to rely on the night sky ...

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.

Bogong moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of ...