Florian Winkler’s mesmerizing map of the northern sky takes celestial mapping to new heights. For this Behind the Map article, we connected with Winkler to learn how he created such an elegant and ...

Scientists are on the edge of their seats as they analyze this remarkable new map, not only to better understand the fate of ...

One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Subscribe to our ...

If you explore the night sky it won't be long before you realize there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The interstellar dust between the stars accounts for 1% of the mass of the interstellar medium ...

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, researchers focused a powerful X-ray machine on pages of parchment from a medieval desert monastery, looking to reveal ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, has finished its planned 3D map of the universe — but the work is far from over. Carnegie Mellon University researchers are already pushing the ...

READ MORE BY TOM STAFFORD: 92-year-old woman still swimming, takes life lap at a time In their map-making, our forebears looked to the skies and saw different things in the patterns in the stars.

Despite my Ph.D. bona fides, at heart I still consider myself to be an amateur astronomer—someone who gazes at the night sky for the sheer joy of it, whether through a telescope’s eyepiece or a ...

One of the best places to study stars is inside “open clusters”, which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Open clusters act as ...