A new survey of the Milky Way galaxy has unveiled 3.32 billion celestial objects, with a stunning new image that showcases stars, pillars of dust and areas of star birth.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured another stunning image of space, this time showing the dramatic scenes around a baby star. Very young stars can throw off powerful jets of hot gas as ...

The main part of the survey has been made available as a gargantuan, 50,000 x 25,0000-pixel zoomable color-composite image, that lets members of the public explore the spectacular star field at ...

The researchers carried out a survey with more than 600 participants in which they asked people whether they use virtual backgrounds, and what type of background (static image, blurred image ...

Amy Sherald, “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama” (2018), oil on linen, 72 1/8 x 60 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (~183.2 x 152.7 x 7 cm) (image courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) ...

A new survey to be published in The New England Journal of Medicine finds that most gun owners and non-gun owners support criminal-history background checks for all gun sales. Proposed bans on ...