Despite the huge amount of data, though, the map doesn't cover the entire Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many ...

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 ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed ... even farther. The current record holder is a galaxy a staggering 34 billion ...