One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity. Subscribe to our ...

Archaeologists have recently made a groundbreaking discovery: a stone carving that appears to be an ancient map of the stars. This finding, which dates back thousands of years, provides invaluable ...

READ MORE BY TOM STAFFORD: 92-year-old woman still swimming, takes life lap at a time In their map-making, our forebears looked to the skies and saw different things in the patterns in the stars.

Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way, which contains the raw material from which stars and planets are made. Information from ...