An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

A rare Egyptian coffin image may show the Milky Way crossing the sky-goddess Nut, says a University of Portsmouth scientist.

Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

The Milky Way has a giant serpent-like structure that is broken in two places. Scientists say a radio signal is peeking from ...

How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars? That’s easy, right? A galaxy is a large collection of millions ...

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory helped diagnose the cause behind a large kink in a huge filament near the center of the ...

A cosmic "bone" at the heart of the Milky Way appears to be fractured. Looking at the break, astronomers found a radio source.

Now, Gaia has uncovered a star family unlike any seen before—a massive group of over 1,000 young stars behaving in an ...

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The aim of the visit mission was to ignite a nationwide livestock revolution from the heart of Nigeria’s livestock history ...

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