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

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Astronomers have identified a colossal giant radio galaxy (GRG) stretching 3.3 million light-years across—32 times the size ...

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

detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom: NGC 3576, NGC 6357, Messier 17, NGC 6188, Messier 22 and NGC 3603. “We have changed the view of our ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, galaxies cluster through gravitational interactions, forming the cosmic web ...

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 ...

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

The greens and yellows that draw a kind of mushroom feature covering a great swathe of the map represent hot gas inside and just outside our galaxy. This material imprints information about the ...

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

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 ...