When, in 2023, Star Wars: Ahsoka made it clear that much of the plot would hinge on finding missing pieces to the astronomical map, Star Wars fans heaved a collective deep sigh. Here we go again. In ...

In a monastery library on the Sinai Peninsula, a devotional handbook by the monk John Climacus sat quietly for centuries while a far older scientific treasure hid beneath its ink. Medieval scribes had ...

The manuscript pages have been very carefully handled before scanning. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Researchers are painstakingly reconstructing the oldest-known ...

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If you explore the night sky it won't be long before you realize there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The interstellar dust between the stars accounts for 1% of the mass of the interstellar medium ...

Once you know how to use a star map, finding your way around the night sky is easy. Credit: Creators.com illustration I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six ...

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will reveal ...