Rather than being flat as a Frisbee, the Milky Way’s star-studded disk is twisted and warped, according to a new three-dimensional map of our home galaxy.If viewed from the side, the spiral arms ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space Agency’s ...

The most accurate map of the Milky Way ever produced includes some 400 million stars never before seen by humans. The Milky Way, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Lagoon Nebula, Sagittarius Star Cloud, and ...

Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's ... All three of these object types represent fresh rounds of star formation in their own way, ...

Astronomers just created a massively detailed Milky Way map with 3.3. billion stars Researchers now have an intricate three-dimensional structural map of billions of objects in our galaxy ...

We don't have a GPS system for our "warped and twisted" galaxy so astronomers have to get crafty when it comes to pinpointing our location among the stars and creating maps of the Milky Way. We've ...

The first ever map of the Milky Way's "graveyard" reveals the galaxy sometimes ejects the corpses of its deceased stars, leaving them roaming the universe as rogue black holes and neutron stars.

As stars move around the galactic center, they serve as a tool for mapping regions of the galaxy that are beyond the direct reach of our telescopes, including areas on the other side of the Milky Way.

This image shows four sky maps made with the new ESA Gaia data released on June 13, 2022. ... Voyager Glimpses Star Formation in the Milky Way For the First Time.

The Milky Way galaxy has a graveyard of dead stars that stretches three times the height of the galaxy, according to new research. Astronomers found the ancient stellar remnants when they mapped ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own.