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 telescope in the Canary Islands that took ...

This is the kind of information used by Xiangyu Zhang, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), and Gregory Green, an independent research group leader (Sofia Kovalevskaja ...

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 VISTA ...

The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million galaxies in stunning detail.

Scientists have uncovered something unusual deep inside the Milky Way. It is not a new planet or a hidden star. A giant magnetic twist that seems to cut across the galaxy in a strange diagonal pattern ...