"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

The Pawnee Star Chart is a series of crosses sprinkled around an oval piece of elk skin. Likely made in the early 17th ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of merging galaxies II ZW 96. The merger is located 500 million light ...

I've been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited the Southern Hemisphere for the first time. For ...

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data ...

Early stages of star formation are now better understood, following an extensive millimeter-wave study of protostars, which are young stellar objects still deeply embedded in their parent molecular ...

Once you know how to use a star map, finding your way around the night sky is easy. Credit: Creators.com illustration I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

From Coruscant (pictured here) to Tatooine, a new visual guide will show you where nearly every planet in the Star Wars galaxy is. Have you ever wondered about the distance between Tatooine and Naboo ...

When, in 2023, Star Wars: Ahsoka made it clear that much of the plot would hinge on finding missing pieces to the astronomical map, Star Wars fans heaved a collective deep sigh. Here we go again. In ...

The star-mapping Gaia satellite was struck by high-speed micrometeoroid, and it left a gap in the shield, scientists say. ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier Science fiction movies that show ...

The galaxy far, far away isn’t just, you know, far away. It’s also really, really big. It’s home to innumerable stars and planets inhabited by countless living creatures of every size and shape. The ...