The European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory has produced the most accurate map of the Milky Way, with the position ... used to better understand our galaxy’s present and past.

The new three dimensional map has been published in the journal ... discovered by the OGLE survey "Our results show that the Milky Way Galaxy is not flat. It is warped and twisted far away from ...

Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the neighboring galaxy ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the ...

A recent study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy could be much larger than previously thought, potentially overlapping with ...

The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy. And that map shows that the edges of the Milky way bend slightly, giving it a warped S shape. "Our map shows the Milky Way disk is ...

Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation. How do environmental factors affect the star ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely ...

NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way’s ‘big brother ... Scientists are using DECam to construct the most extensive 3D map of the night sky ever made.