Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy, but we will never see what it looks like from the outside. It ...

The Milky Way is not the calm, flat starry disk many of us learned about in school. Astronomers are now tracking a colossal, ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years. Researchers used the European Southern ...

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 ...

Instead of limiting methods that rely on stellar positioning or gas distribution alone, an international team utilized the ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

Astronomers have made the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy ever made. The huge map has already helped changed our view of the galaxy in unexpected ways, according to its creators. In all, it ...

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

Along with summer comes the peak time for viewing the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way. But if you want to see the dense area of stars at the center of the Milky Way, you'll need a few conditions in ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA ...

The study employed a technique the researchers call 'pattern matching', using Cepheid variable stars to effectively anchor the distances of the gas on the outer edges of the galaxy's spiral arms for ...