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.

As stars move around the galactic center, they serve as a tool for mapping regions of the galaxy that are beyond the direct reach of our telescopes, including areas on the other side of the Milky Way.

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Astronomers just created a massively detailed Milky Way map with 3.3. billion stars Researchers now have an intricate three-dimensional structural map of billions of objects in our galaxy ...

Stunning image of colliding galaxies is a preview of the Milky Way's fate 01:00. Scientists have discovered a dark side to our galaxy. In the first map of its kind of the Milky Way, they uncovered ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Astronomers map a galactic underworld of stars that sheds light on what might ... About 30 percent of the dead neutron stars in the Milky Way’s galactic underworld will eventually be ejected ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

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.

From ghostlike particles, astrophysicists have pieced together a new map of the galaxy we live in. For now, that map of the Milky Way is blurry and incomplete.