The animals on this list shine for all the wrong reasons. Nevertheless, their odd behaviors and lives are working for them, ...

Lovers of fine hand-crafted wares, clothing collectors, food fanatics and jewellery junkies are just a few of the people who ...

The center of our galaxy has long been a mystery, specifically because there is a massive cloud of dust and gas at the center ...

Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological ...

Galactic bones, filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

Evidence that we live in a spiral galaxy is all around us early in the morning in late spring.

There are some exciting cosmic sights to see in June — not only is it the start of the peak Milky Way season, but Mercury will be visible in the western sky just after sunset during the second ...

The Way of the Cross (Via Crucis) follows the course of Jesus' passion, death, and burial; it is observed by the devotion to the Stations of the Cross, a collection of 14 images which are to be ...

In 2022, the same telescope took an image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The first ever image of a black hole. (Image credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration) ...