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

Astronomers 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 spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

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

Scientists have used the wobble of the Milky Way and what are known as "cosmic lighthouses" to shine a light on the mystery ...

And on average we find that there's less than 1 kilogram ... a biggish dwarf galaxy—orbits our own galaxy, and when it passes near the Milky Way, it can pull some of the mass in the galactic ...

The superstructure "Quipu," recently identified, spans 1.3 ... to map the distribution of matter in this region of the Universe. Quipu significantly influences its environment. Its mass distorts ...

The largest 3D map ... effect is that it begins to "appear" that the entire universe is accelerating in its expansion, but that's just a result of our position in the universe, this kind of mass ...

About 1,000 National Park Service jobs were cut as part of the mass layoffs targeting employees ... in the Figueroa Mountain area of the roughly 1.75-million-acre Los Padres forest, reducing ...

Strange events at the heart of the Milky Way could point toward a new dark suspect that annihilates to influence the chemistry of the cosmos.

When smartphones from companies like Apple and Samsung zig, Sony inevitably zags, and it’s how we ended up with the Xperia 1 line in the first ... user experience and mass appeal, rather than ...

Our galaxy, in turn, is moving relative to the other galaxies around us, and so all the mass in the universe is ... with Mercury traveling 1.6 times faster than Earth at 105,000mph(47.4km/s).