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

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite. But our sun ...

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 ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

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

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

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 ...