Florian Winkler’s mesmerizing map of the northern sky takes celestial mapping to new heights. For this Behind the Map article, we connected with Winkler to learn how he created such an elegant and ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has created a three-dimensional map of stars close to the sun that may help astronomers search for alien planets that could host life. The stars mapped by the ...

Scientists traced star-forming gas clouds in a nearby lenticular galaxy, NGC 1387, offering new insight into early-type ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, researchers focused a powerful X-ray machine on pages of parchment from a medieval desert monastery, looking to reveal ...

I need a good 2-D representation of the closest, say, 40 stars in relation to each other, then another that shows some major / well-known stars in our area of the galaxy but on a larger scale - say, ...

I don’t think it’s overly poetic to say that stars are how we know the universe. When we look out at the night sky, stars are overwhelmingly what we see—thousands of them, ranging from Sirius, the ...

(CNN) – Researchers have discovered what is believed to be the oldest map of the stars. Archivists uncovered the long-lost historical relic hidden underneath a Christian manuscript, according to the ...

What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team ...