Our understanding of the galaxy has advanced with every leap ... originating from our position in the central plane of the Milky Way's disk. Our location limits the volume of potentially ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision ... Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and ...

Its aluminum cover is engraved with instructions, and a unique galactic map. Astronomer and astrophysicist ... a course to our little corner of the Milky Way. And as if this interstellar roadmap ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...