Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

I've been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited the Southern Hemisphere for the first time. For ...

Archaeologists have recently made a groundbreaking discovery: a stone carving that appears to be an ancient map of the stars. This finding, which dates back thousands of years, provides invaluable ...

Once you know how to use a star map, finding your way around the night sky is easy. Credit: Creators.com illustration I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six ...

If you explore the night sky it won't be long before you realize there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The interstellar dust between the stars accounts for 1% of the mass of the interstellar medium ...

ESA's Herschel mission releases today a series of unprecedented maps of star-forming hubs in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. This is accompanied by a set of catalogues of hundreds of thousands of ...