BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way. This breakthrough will provide ...

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

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

Cherry Springs State Park sits quietly in Potter County, an 82-acre pocket of darkness that’s become the astronomy enthusiast’s equivalent of finding a golden ticket to Wonka’s factory. While millions ...

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

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

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy 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 ...

Following a checkout period lasting one month, the observatory – which measures 8.5 feet tall, 10.5 feet across, and weighs 1,107 pounds – will capture a ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

It's easy to get lost in a clear night sky full of stars. It can feel like a random mess of lights without a little guidance.