Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia created the most detailed 3D ...

ITS DATA LED TO THE REVELATION THAT 10 BILLION YEARS AGO THE YOUNG MILKY WAY COLLIDED AND MERGED WITH A SMALLER GALAXY ... BROWN USED IT TO CHART THE PATH OF STARS IN OUR NIGHT SKY AND PREDICT ...

Two galaxies that closely neighbour the Milky Way are at war, with the larger tearing the smaller galaxy to shreds. The Magellanic Clouds are two dwarf galaxies, visible from the Southern Hemisphere, ...

When the Milky Way rose over the hills to ... opened its eyes to the universe beyond its home galaxy. But observing the professional way wasn’t usually a lot of fun. To be up there in the ...

An artist’s impression of ESA’s Gaia satellite observing the Milky Way ... explore the structure of our galaxy, trace its history, and study stars, planets, and more. Launched in 2013, Gaia was built ...

enabled the team to chart extinction curves across a depth of 16,000 light years, revealing dramatic regional variations and significantly expanding the map's breadth and depth. "This map has opened a ...

He suggested that they start by buying a set of binoculars over a telescope, and look at star charts on the internet ... That’s part of our Milky Way galaxy.” Bisher displayed the first ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.