National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski shares the wins that come from exploring activities, arts and culture beyond ...

And there's a lot of texture and color ... spent evenings admiring Jupiter and peeking at the Milky Way (a major win considering the galaxy is typically harder to see in the winter months).

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

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

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.

A Milky Way twin in the early Universe Among these discoveries is a candidate spiral galaxy—one still awaiting confirmation—that would be the most distant ever identified. It was observed at a ...

Graur says that Nut probably isn’t meant to personify the Milky Way, but is more of a celestial canvas upon which an array of heavenly bodies – including the Sun, Moon, stars, and galaxy ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds. This is the ...