Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...

Somewhere between us and the Sagittarius Arm, the Milky Way’s magnetic field quietly switches direction. A team of radio ...

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to build the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever attempted.

They slip through your skin, your walls, and the whole Earth without leaving a mark. Neutrinos earn the nickname “ghost particles” because they almost never interact with anything. Yet those rare ...

Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way, which contains the raw material from which stars and planets are made. Information from ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed ever made. The team monitored the central regions of our galaxy ...

A new map of the universe displays for the first time the span of the entire known cosmos with pinpoint accuracy and sweeping beauty. A new map of dark matter in the local universe reveals several ...

Using a sample of 4,700 blue horizontal-branch stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the research team showed that the oldest stars are concentrated in the central region of the galaxy, confirming ...

Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new ...

Our understanding of the galaxy has advanced with every leap in the number of stars. From early observations to more and more advanced space and ground-based telescopes, each milestone has revealed ...