"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an astronomer at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom and first ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of merging galaxies II ZW 96. The merger is located 500 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Delphinus. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, ...

A giant 'wave' is rippling through the Milky Way, pushing thousands of stars across the galaxy, and scientists don't know ...

Astronomers have found more evidence that there is a massive ripple traveling through the Milky Way. They have found evidence ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope, scientists have created the most precise three-dimensional map of star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy. This map will ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years. Researchers used the European Southern ...

Scientists have detected a “Great Wave” which is traveling across the Milky Way galaxy’s centre and responsible for pushing ...

Observing and studying our own galaxy, the Milky Way, can be a bit like trying to take in the view of an entire forest while standing inside it. But instead of trees obscuring the view, it’s gas and ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will map billions of stars, revealing hidden dust and gas, helping astronomers uncover the Milky ...