Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's magnetic field, revealing that it is far more complex than previously ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

This is not a new phenomenon, there are records and descriptions of these types of objects flying in our skies from thousands ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan Venezuela has a ton of oil. It also has something else ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising questions about how the early universe evolved.

Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Great Falls Public Library will be bringing YouthAstroNet, a youth astrophysics ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter. Using ultra-detailed simulations, researchers recreated their origins and ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...