Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

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

At the easternmost edge of the Ouachita National Forest and less than an hour away from Little Rock, Lake Sylvia is the site ...

Chester County's AgConnect initiative expands to support local agriculture, with a celebratory event at Milky Way Farm.

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

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

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

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

Nestled in the remote highlands of Potter County, Cherry Springs State Park offers something increasingly rare in our modern world – a chance to see the night sky as our ancestors did, ablaze with ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it’s called ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...