When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed 3D map ever made of stellar nurseries in our Milky ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy, a vast collection of stars, planets, and other celestial objects bound together by gravity. It’s a barred spiral galaxy, which means it has a central bar-shaped ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.

This week in space we've got some beautiful maps of both the galaxy and NASA's next asteroid target, 16 Psyche. The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to science and there's a planetary ...

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 ...

NASA has released an interactive mosaic of infrared images of the Milky Way. It is the "clearest infrared panorama of our galactic home ever made," according to the voiceover in the video below. The ...

Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed 3D map ever made of stellar nurseries in our Milky Way galaxy. Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope, astronomers ...