Astronomers have published a gigantic map of the Milky Way, unveiling discoveries that ... making it the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Visible ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy. And that map shows that the edges of the Milky way bend slightly, giving it a warped S shape. "Our map shows the Milky Way disk is ...

just released some of the most complete and detailed images of the Milky Way and they're absolutely stunning. Be sure to check out the full, zoomable version of the map on ESO's website.

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the Sun. This discrepancy ...

In their study published Thursday in the journal Science, they showed that by measuring the distance between classical Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy, they could develop a three-dimensional ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.