The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and ...

This new map of the Milky Way contains 10 times more objects than ever before It reveals details of our galaxy's core which had been previously hidden From the violent births of newborn stars to ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by ... an array of rapidly spinning neutron stars spread across the galaxy — show this "gravitational wave background" may be louder than ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

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 ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

“We have characterised the synchrotron emission from our Galaxy with unprecedented accuracy. This radiation is the result of the emission by charged particles moving at velocities close to that of ...