Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's ...

Stargazing dreams come true at this Pennsylvania park, with pitch-dark skies that reveal the Milky Way in stunning detail.

Astronomers have uncovered evidence that the Milky Way is not drifting through space alone but is embedded in a vast, flat structure of dark matter stretching tens of millions of light-years. The ...

International scientists have gotten their clearest view yet of the Milky Way’s magnetic field thanks to a project based in the Okanagan.

Scientists at Durham University are playing a pivotal role in creating a new telescope which can see massive stars in the Milky Way and view the distant Universe.

Astronomers identified a strange object in the Milky Way that sends out powerful bursts of radio waves and X-rays with steady ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...