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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“We made so many discoveries, we have changed the view of our galaxy forever,” Dante Minniti, VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey project lead and an astrophysicist at Chile’s Universidad ...

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

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

Astronomers have made the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy ever made. The huge map has already helped changed our view of the galaxy in unexpected ways, according to its creators. In all, it ...

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

Along with summer comes the peak time for viewing the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way. But if you want to see the dense area of stars at the center of the Milky Way, you'll need a few conditions in ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...