The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

Depictions on ancient Egyptian coffins and tombs suggest a link between the sky goddess Nut and the Milky Way. A recent study led by an astronomer sheds new light on this connection. Depiction of the ...

Archaeologists unearthed a 10,500-year-old circular structure that they claim housed hunter-gatherers, making it Britain’s ...

It was supposed to be another chill day on the water—until our find turned into criminal evidence. The police stepped in fast, and what they took could be part of something much bigger. This wasn’t ...

Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly ...

There’s plenty going on in the mind of Philip Smith, and it shows in his art. The Miami-born painter’s canvases are full of ...

Most readers tend to overlook how the ancients conceptualized the rivers Nile and Euphrates. These were not merely mundane ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

June sky shows planets before sunrise, Mars near Regulus, the glowing Milky Way, and the solstice with shifting daylight hours.

This June, the Milky Way’s brilliant heart lights up the night as planets align and the solstice sun marks Earth’s celestial ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way -- a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and ...

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...