A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Astronomers know these blobs of stars as globular clusters, and they've been trying to decipher exactly how these stellar neighborhoods come into existence and evolve through time.Now, an ...

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.

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 ...

Despite its vast size, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) are beginning to piece together the largest 3D map of the universe ... the stars in the Milky Way which appear in light ...

The Milky Way is located at the intersection of the ... exploding Euclid telescope reveals 1st section of largest-ever 3D map of the universe — and there's still 99% to go ...

This new approach opens up exciting opportunities to map characteristics like interstellar extinction and metallicity across the Milky Way, aiding in the understanding of stellar populations and ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic map of the Milky Way, unveiling discoveries that have changed their view of the galaxy “forever”. The infrared map contains more than 1.5 billion objects ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic map of the Milky Way, unveiling discoveries that have changed their view of the galaxy “forever”. The infrared map contains more than 1.5 billion objects, ...