Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet. The new map -- created using data collected by the Gaia satellite -- shows about 1.7 billion ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...

“We made so many discoveries, we have changed the view of our Galaxy forever,” said ... of the data is a more accurate map of the inner region of the Milky Way, which is often obscured by ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...

Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, ...

Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century ... William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a thousand new nebulae ...