The outskirts of the Milky Way offer a unique laboratory to study molecular clouds and star formation under metal-poor ...

The solar system floats inside a vast, million-degree hot bubble—an invisible cocoon of thin gas that glows in X-ray light. Known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), this low-density cavity stretches more ...

It’s officially shooting-star summer with four concurrent meteor showers—including fan-favorite, the Perseids—and our ...

This photo taken on July 21, 2025 shows the Milky Way in Chang'an town of Fujin city, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission ...

The dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24 represent the perfect opportunity to see the Milky Way streak through the summer night sky.

‘Literally no way’: Idea of redrawing WA’s congressional map gets bipartisan brush off U.S. House Democrats want to counter a move by Texas lawmakers to elect more Republicans.

Redistricting Texas 2025 Texas Republicans, including Gov. Abbott, were reluctant to redraw the state’s congressional maps. Then Trump got involved.

Telescopes around the world are now tracking a new visitor to our celestial neighborhood. Streaking through at a speed and trajectory that not even the Sun's immense gravity can capture, we will ...

They’ve found cold clouds of gas floating inside the blazing-hot Fermi bubbles, enormous structures of superheated gas that extend 25,000 light years above and below the center of the Milky Way.

Texas Republicans are poised to redraw the state’s congressional map during a special session that starts Monday.