Among life’s most profound experiences is being able to witness the Milky Way stretching across the dark canvas of the sky. In fact, the stars, nebula.

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail every second.

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

How big is the Milky Way really? In this episode, we scale up from our “cosmic backyard” to the true vastness of the galaxy.

India is home to several remote regions where light pollution is minimal and night skies remain remarkably clear. From high-altitude cold deserts to wide-open salt plains and ancient landscapes, these ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

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 ...

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

From volcanic landscapes to world-class observatories, a journey through the Canary Islands reveals a night sky unlike ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...