Scientists at NASA, utilizing the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have unveiled a significant finding that indicates the outer ...

Astronomers have achieved one of the most precise measurements ever made of the Milky Way’s distant spiral arms, revealing ...

The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent explosions ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope was built to study dark matter and dark energy, but for one day last year, it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A NASA-funded collaboration led by Villanova University ...

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 revealed ...

Researchers have discovered that our galaxy's outermost spiral arms are wide open and farther away than we thought ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years. Researchers used the European Southern ...

Using the VISTA telescope, the European Southern Observatory put 13 years of work into the map, which consists of 200,000 images. Joe is a freelance journalist. It all started with a long-running ...

Observing and studying our own galaxy, the Milky Way, can be a bit like trying to take in the view of an entire forest while standing inside it. But instead of trees obscuring the view, it’s gas and ...