The Milky Way is a truly monstrous collection of more than 100 billion stars that stretches more than 100,000 light-years wide. However, we have company in the form of small neighbors called dwarf ...

The Milky Way's disk of stars becomes increasingly 'warped' and twisted far away from its center, according to astronomers who have built the first accurate 3D map of Earth's home galaxy.

We now know that the Milky Way is not flat. Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia have ...

The team plotted the locations of 1,339 Cepheids on a 3D map, building out the most accurate representation of how the Milky Way is shaped. We know the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy -- a thin disk ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite has produced the most accurate survey of the Milky Way yet, plotting nearly 1.7 bilion stars in a 3-D map.

Using data from 2,431 Cepheids, the team was able to create its incredibly detailed map of the Milky Way. Along with providing the most accurate look at the shape of our galaxy to date, the ...

Our galaxy may not be destined to end in a fiery collision with the Andromeda galaxy as soon as previously thought. While earlier research regarded the collision as a virtual certainty within five or ...

Building a hydrogen map for the Milky Way has long been crucial to understanding the galaxy's structure, dynamics, star formation and evolution, as well as refining the observations of distant ...

Those researchers can now explore the best-yet map of the Milky Way, with detailed information on the positions, distances and motion of 1.8 billion cosmic objects, to help us better understand ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms. By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us ...

The goal was to create the most detailed and accurate map of the Milky Way ever. After taking images of the night sky for 13 years, the team has now published the map -- and it's absolutely massive.

Without accurate measures of the distance between the sun and stars in the Milky Way's outer regions, it's difficult to determine the precise shape of the galaxy and its gas disk.