NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to build the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever attempted.

They slip through your skin, your walls, and the whole Earth without leaving a mark. Neutrinos earn the nickname “ghost particles” because they almost never interact with anything. Yet those rare ...

See the glowing arch of our Milky Way's core at its peak in the spring sky ...

A record-breaking 3D map of the universe is now complete, giving scientists a new way to study dark energy. The massive ...

The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the ...

The May 16 new moon will create ideal dark sky conditions for viewing the Milky Way’s glowing core. Stargazers can expect the ...

The best map ever made of the Milky Way is now available online. The Apex Telescope in Chile captured light in sub millimeter wavelengths, and then the European Southern Observatory put them together ...

Astronomers may have finally put a number on one of our galaxy’s slipperiest questions: where the Milky Way’s physical boundary really ends.

This week in space we've got some beautiful maps of both the galaxy and NASA's next asteroid target, 16 Psyche. The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to science and there's a planetary ...