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The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...

Astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to conduct a ...

A 2,300-year-old Chinese star chart challenges the origins of astronomy—sparking debate among experts about its true age.

The oldest star chart in the world was made in China more than 2,300 years ago, a hotly debated preprint study finds.