Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

BEIJING -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large, trying to get a grasp of how big it really is could induce ...

Strange events at the heart of the Milky Way could point toward a new dark suspect that annihilates to influence the chemistry of the cosmos.

SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called Sagittarius ... into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before ...

In astronomical observations, the system forms a halo of light known as an Einstein ... with 100 times the mass of the Milky Way. But to account for the observed warping, the team concluded ...