Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

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 ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

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 ...

First-Ever Photo of Milky Way's Black Hole Not Accurate, Scientists Claim. Published Oct 28, 2024 at 2:30 PM EDT Updated Nov 14, 2024 at 10:32 AM EST. By .

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.

Once the AI was accurate enough, it analyzed data for 2 million red giant stars in the Milky Way. ... These ancient stars could eventually tell us how the Milky Way formed.

Artist impression of ESA's Gaia satellite observing the Milky Way. The background image of the sky is compiled from data from more than 1.8 billion stars.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.