Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for measuring the Hubble constant stubbornly disagree ...

The liquid outer core is surrounded by the thick layer called the mantle. It’s mostly solid rock, not melted like lava. Over time, changes in heat and pressure make the solid rock slowly flow. It’s ...

He-Man prepares to renew hostilities with Skeletor in a live-action reboot of the toy-inspired cartoon. But does he still ...

When electronics meet cosmic rays, bad things can happen. Chip makers need to test what their products can withstand, and ...

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

Events around the Adirondacks include the NASA Earth to Sky program, concerts and the last days of winter carnival.

Scientists mapped 650 light-years of the Milky Way’s core to examine star formation in one of the galaxy’s most extreme environments.

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

Astronomers have unveiled one of the most ambitious maps yet of the early universe, revealing a vast "sea of light" between galaxies that had remained otherwise hidden in previous surveys.

Billions of stars fill our galaxy that become visible at certain times of year. And in the U.S., that time, known as "Milky ...

Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...