Artistic depictions of the Ancient Egyptian god Nut reveal an awareness of the Milky Way galaxy.

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

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The glorious river of stars, interwoven with dark dust, that makes up the plane of the Milky Way in the night sky may have ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

A Closer Look at M87 M87 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1781. He classified it and eight other similar deep space ...

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Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

The fascination with figuring out the part that the Milky Way may have played in the culture and religion of ancient Egypt ...

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that shouldn't be the case at all.

Welcome to the May night sky. Now we are deep into the springtime in the northern hemisphere, with its warmer but shorter ...