Winners and runners-up of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's 2025 Environmental Photography Award revealed.

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

None of these challenges faze UCSB environmental studies major Liv Valinsky, because she has just gotten a precious glimpse of her possible future and it is bright. A lifelong outdoors person with a ...

Small(er) but mighty venues have some pretty massive live shows lined up for the summer. For some of these folks, it will be ...

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

Human life, and science as part of it, are based on certain mental schemes that we call paradigms, and which are sometimes ...

A beach in the Australian state of South Australia has been closed due to a mysterious foam. Surfers have reported cold and flu symptoms after visiting Waitpinga Beach. Numerous dead fish have also ...

Oregon is not just misty mountains and trendy cities. This unexpected high-desert landscape near Bend is a unique "badlands" ...

and it presents the reader with an excellent account of the methods used to explore the Milky Way and to fathom some of its secrets. Here we have descriptions of the means by which astronomers ...

The observatory "will collect data on more than 450 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in ... off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, capable of producing ...

Astronomers found a fast-moving 'zombie star' in the Milky Way. This magnetar, named SGR 0501+4516, has a strong magnetic field. It travels at 110,000 mph. Discovered in 2008, it's 15,000 light ...