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

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

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

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

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 ...

Our understanding of the galaxy has advanced with every leap in the number of stars. From early observations to more and more advanced space and ground-based telescopes, each milestone has ...

It points straight at a fuzzy patch that, under the darkest skies though more likely through binoculars, looks like what it is—a very large and very close galaxy. Also called M31—and our ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by ... we need a detector the size of our galaxy. The high-frequency gravitational waves created by collisions between relatively small ...

distance and motion of stars in our galaxy. Team members used data from the European Space Agency telescope, along with other measurements, to construct a detailed, 3D map of interstellar matter ...