This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

However, many stars spotted near the Milky Way's central black hole seem to be ... the researchers tested whether the stars could be drawing energy from the plentiful supply of dark matter thought ...

The freestanding shadows of these geologic monoliths blot out the Milky Way as they have since the Jurassic. Here—beneath the bewildering conjunction of starlight and father time—you’ll find ...