The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

A Platte County man who sexually abused a 5-year-old girl has been sentenced to more than three-and-a-half decades in prison.

From the Show Me State to the stars, Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble is credited with ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...