When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaar, L. McCallum et al (2025) Astronomers have unveiled 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 telescope in the Canary Islands that took ...

Their new three-dimensional map, which provides a broad view of our place among the stars, reveals the S-like structure of the Milky Way’s warped stellar disc. “Our map shows the Milky Way disk is not ...

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 ...

To make this happen, scientists collected about 200,000 images between 2010 and 2023. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The most ...

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to build the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever attempted.

The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers try to sketch where alien societies might arise, thrive and vanish inside ...