Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern ...

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet. The new map -- created using data collected by the Gaia satellite -- shows about 1.7 billion ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...

Model of the Milky Way from above. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar, ESA Standard Licence The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever.

A new map of the Milky Way created by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan shows Earth is spiraling faster and is 2,000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole at the center ...