This new map of the Milky Way contains 10 times more objects than ever before It reveals details of our galaxy's core which had been previously hidden From the violent births of newborn stars to ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud 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 ...

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 ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

“We have characterised the synchrotron emission from our Galaxy with unprecedented accuracy. This radiation is the result of the emission by charged particles moving at velocities close to that of ...

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 ...

Scientists have confirmed earlier reports that the fabric of the universe is constantly vibrating. The background rumble is ...