Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

The Milky Way contains hundreds of billions of stars and potentially billions of habitable planets. Yet we see no evidence of alien civilizations. This contradiction is known as the Fermi Paradox.

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

🌌 NASA has detected dangerous debris drifting near the Milky Way, and scientists are paying close attention. In this video, we explain what this debris actually is, where it came from, and why it ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The Quality “Learing” Center Minneapolis, a purported day care flagged in a viral video designed to expose fraud, may have been bustling with kids Monday, but it is typically such ...

Happy New Year! While we’ve had a lot of cloudy nights lately, it’s been warm for the beginning of winter. Luckily, there are a lot of great things to see in our nighttime Wyoming skies. The first ...