The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

The Milky Way's system of small, orbiting satellite galaxies is quite unusual, a new 12-year study of other galaxies in the local universe has found. The Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA ...

Years ago, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile, started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way. The goal was ...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (Vista) telescope, the scientists monitored the central regions of the Milky Way for more ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers studying the Milky Way's supermassive black hole have found "compelling evidence" that could finally help explain its mysterious past. Located 26,000 light-years ...

If you click on a link in this story we may earn affiliate revenue. THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy - and scientists predict this could ...

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 ...

NASA astronaut captures photograph of Milky Way while orbiting Earth The moon was not in view during the crew’s orbit in the night portions — which meant the Milky Way’s main belt was bright ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic map of the Milky Way, unveiling discoveries that have changed their view of the galaxy “forever”. The infrared map contains more than 1.5 billion objects ...

The ancient Greeks named it "galaxies kuklos," or "milk circle," and the Romans dubbed it the "Milky Way." It was in the year ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...