Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy, but how well do we actually know it? As part of a NASA-funded project, a team led by Villanova University researchers has obtained a never-before-seen view of the ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed ever made. The team monitored the central regions of our galaxy ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere – trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

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 ...

Using a sample of 4,700 blue horizontal-branch stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the research team showed that the oldest stars are concentrated in the central region of the galaxy, confirming ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest ...

Astronomers using data from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies outside ...

From a window on the International Space Station, astronauts have captured a rare view of a nearby galaxy caught in the act ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects â the most detailed ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VISTA ...