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 ... dwarfs to the solar system.

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

there is a cluster of stellar-mass black holes in Omega Centauri, believed to be the remains of an ancient galaxy cannibalized by the Milky Way. "The hunt for elusive intermediate-mass black holes ...

Currently, scientists’ knowledge of its shape is based on what is known about other galaxies and models of our own solar system – but ... stars within the galaxy, they could develop a ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...

The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map ... system. More research like this to map the ages and locations of stars in the Milky Way could can help scientists piece together how our ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be ... black holes at galaxy centers and smaller stellar ...