Observing and studying our own galaxy, the Milky Way, can be a bit like trying to take in the view of an entire forest while standing inside it. But instead of trees obscuring the view, it’s gas ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space Agency’s ...

These new findings shed light on the warped, twisted shape of the galaxy's disk, researchers added. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy comprised of a bar-shaped core region surrounded by a flat disk ...

That study looked at 1,339 Cepheids and created one of the most comprehensive 3D maps of the Milky Way, which showed that our home galaxy is twisted at its edges.

The most precise 3-D map of our Milky Way galaxy has been revealed by astronomers. The 3-D Milky Way map was created using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space probe that’s been ...

The first ever map of the Milky Way's "graveyard" reveals the galaxy sometimes ejects the corpses of its deceased stars, leaving them roaming the universe as rogue black holes and neutron stars.

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

When ancient stargazers looked up at the Milky Way, some saw spilt milk or a river flowing across the sky.Others saw a trail of hay, or a flock of birds. No one spotted the pinwheel. It’s hard ...

The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many planets. At 1.5 billion objects, the map represents only a small slice of the galaxy.

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space Agency’s ...

Observing and studying our own galaxy, the Milky Way, can be a bit like trying to take in the view of an entire forest while standing inside it. But instead of trees obscuring the view, it’s gas ...

(CNN) --A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space ...