The most detailed infrared map of ... Nebula," located around 5,900 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. Another of the star-forming regions of the Milky Way observed by ...

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 ... a stellar nursery located about 5500 light ...

A new map of the Milky Way created by the ... the orbit was at a speed of 220 km/s. “Because Earth is located inside the Milky Way Galaxy, we can’t step back and see what the Galaxy looks ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

In their study published Thursday in the journal Science, they showed that by measuring the distance between classical Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy, they could develop a three-dimensional ...

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has identified a massive new radio galaxy, nicknamed Inkathazo, which translates to 'trouble ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy ... the location of our own solar system. More research like this to map the ages and locations of stars in the Milky Way could ...

The lab released a new image of two galaxies merging, which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image ...