New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...

Six Photographers Explore the Eastern Sierra Wilderness,” a film by Rick Aeschliman, will be shown at the Nevada County Camera Club on Monday, January 26. This 30-minute ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured comet Comet 96P/Machholz latest flyby of the Sun. See a time-lapse of the footage here. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO | edited by Space.com's ...

The Milky Way could be called “the Neutrino Way.” Its stars produce vast numbers of the subatomic particles. Now, scientists have calculated how many of them should be streaming down onto Earth from ...

Situated around 17,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy, the supernova remnant is close enough for NASA’s Chandra Observatory to capture its subtle changes in exceptional detail.

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars. Planet Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), including reports of ...

There's going to be a new space telescope in town: the Nancy Grace Roman (the famous NASA astronomer, not to be mistaken for the crime show host), which is slated to launch by May 2027. At least ...

Milky Way All Caramel “brings the brand's gooey caramel into the spotlight,” per an announcement shared with PEOPLE Milky Way Milky Way All Caramel hits stores nationally beginning in January 2026 The ...

Milky Way is bringing back a previously discontinued fan-favorite with a new look and a new name, but all the same ingredients as the original. The simpler spinoff was such a hit that it earned its ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...