By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

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

But researchers have just demonstrated that once you are far away from the planets of the Solar System, there might be a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

A surprising new look at the Milky Way has scientists rethinking everything we thought we knew about our home galaxy. Thanks ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...

From Gaia’s map, more than 13,000 peer-reviewed studies have already emerged, and many have concerned the fundamental structure and deep history of the Milky Way.

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under ...