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

Astronomers have captured tens of "zoomed-in" images of stars within the Milky Way, but it has taken until now to capture a star beyond our galaxy with a similar level of detail. WOH G64 has been ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

The new map provides a larger-scale picture of our galaxy in more detail. The researchers used a telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to image the entire visible Milky Way over 100 times ...