ESA's Gaia mission ends its tenure—creating the most comprehensive and precise 3D map of Milky Way Galaxy In March 2025, the ...

Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are generally characterized by their flat structure, but the ThrUMMS team has uncovered a wave-like pattern in the distribution of cold gas throughout the galaxy.

Astronomers have unveiled a groundbreaking 3D map of the Milky Way's cold gas clouds, providing unprecedented insights into the Galaxy's intricate structures. This study, led by Peter Barnes of the ...

This is part of the first 3D map of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Over 200 thousand objects are included in the map, which was made up of images from a ...

Gaia mapped billions of stars and revealed hidden connections in the Milky Way, reshaping how we understand our galaxy.

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 ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Astronomers have used stars called Cepheids to create a 3D model of the Milky Way and understand the forces that are warping and twisting its structure.

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's ...

An image of interstellar dust moving through the Milky Way’s magnetic field may help scientists learn more about the origin of galaxies ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronaut Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...