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 analysis of pulsing stars has revealed the Milky Way’s twisted shape. Scientists have known since the 1950s that the spiral-shaped Milky Way’s disk is warped, bending by thousands of ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

Use this "road map" to plan your Milky Way observing. Skip to content. ... through about 28,000 light-years toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy and the Sagittarius Star Clouds.