Contributing editor Jim Richardson is a photojournalist recognized for his explorations of small-town life. His photos appear frequently ... sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

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Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new ... Imagine a group photo of over three billion people and every single individual is recognizable ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

A "hauntingly beautiful" photograph of the Milky Way above the ruins of a Tudor mansion ... "It's a great little chocolate box photo of the South Downs." Andrew Parker/South Downs National Park ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

Light pollution can obstruct your view of catching spectacular cosmic sights like meteor showers, distant planets, the Milky Way galaxy, and this month's comet — Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.