A new radio survey reveals that the Milky Way’s magnetic field is intricate, widespread, and deeply connected to how the galaxy is organized.

For decades, scientists have suspected the presence of a magnetic field that holds the Milky Way together, but only now has ...

In 1997, a team of astronomers from the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) began a project to delve into the sky deeper than most surveys had before and to cover 64,000 times more area ...

In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a discovery that revolutionized the field of astronomy. She detected the radio signals emitted by certain dying... How Jocelyn Bell once made a discovery that changed ...