Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

At the Harvard College Observatory in years around 1900, women were hired to make measurements of astronomical data and do ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ...

Cosmic speed limits can be a major inconvenience but they've rarely stopped science fiction in its tracks.

BL Lacertae blazar shifts between classifications faster than expected. It shows record X-ray activity and challenges current ...

This place just made TIME's list of World's Greatest Places of 2025 and Newsweek's 10 best science museums in the U.S. Here's how you can visit.

Cherry Springs, isolated atop its mountain and surrounded by the 265,000-acre Susquehannock State Forest, remained a haven of ...

A new census of massive stars points to a correlation between core collapse supernovae and two of the last five mass extinction events here on Earth.

Cherry Springs State Park sits atop a 2,300-foot mountain in the Susquehannock State Forest, surrounded by some of Pennsylvania’s most pristine wilderness. Named for the large black cherry trees that ...