A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

A new study using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped to answer a continuous question in astronomy ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

While good news for the Milky Way galaxy, the latest forecast may be moot for humanity. "We likely won't live to see the benefit," lead author Till Sawala of the University of Helsinki said in an ...

But the only way to get to a new prediction about the eventual fate of the Milky Way will be with even better data.” DOI: Nature Astronomy, 2025. 10.1038/s41550-025-02563-1 (About DOIs).

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding ...

Elsewhere, other civilizations also likened the Milky Way’s cloudy band to rivers and pathways. In classical Greece, it was called the “Galaxy,” rooted in legends of milk sprayed across the sky. The ...

2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year The winners of the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest have been announced, highlighting epic imagery of the Milky Way from around the world ...

Depiction of the ancient Egyptian goddess Nut swallowing the sun. Credit: Hans Bernhard. CC BY 3.0/Wikimedia Commons/Hans Bernhard A new study suggests that ancient Egyptians may have captured the ...

Science Archaeology Tomb art suggests Egyptian sky goddess wore the Milky Way galaxy Nut may have been influenced the cosmos. By Andrew Paul Published May 1, 2025 11:26 AM EDT ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced the galaxy, such as the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, and the Book of Nut.