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

By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan Navy fires commanding officer of Naval Information ...

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

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The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

each milestone has revealed new layers of the galaxy's complex structure and motion. While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured ...

The light temperature changes depending on where you see it in time. And so what it is telling scientists is an awful lot about the early formation of things like the Milky Way Galaxy in ways we ...

New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been ... and we are not able to see their ‘building blocks’ separately. “With Firefly Sparkle ...

The lab released a new image of two galaxies merging, which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image, we see the ...