Never-before-seen details of the Milky Way's spiral arms have been revealed through chemical mapping. This pioneering technique, called chemical cartography, has unveiled new regions of our galaxy's ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

A century-old mystery of how galaxies change shapes has been solved by considering 'survival of the fittest' collisions between cosmic titans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Every 200 million years, high-energy comets may pelt our planet as it passes through our galaxy's spiral arms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

One other thing the Gaia data has been clarifying is that the Milky Way's disk is not serene and flat, but warped and ...

The method overcomes the challenges of dust that block the view of some of the Milky Way's stars. Hawkins’ model superimposed over a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory illustration of the Milky Way. Red ...

St. Louis, Mo. — For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst of it and can’t step outside for a bird’s eye view. Now, ...

In a bizarre geological twist of fate, researchers report that the very continents on which we humans call home were likely a byproduct of four-billion-year-old giant Earth impactors incredibly ...

Mighty forces beyond the solar system billions of years ago might have shaped much of the land beneath our feet today. A study recently published in the journal Geology proposes that Earth’s ...

It looks like a tiny galaxy, but it's just one big star. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As if cracking open a cosmic Russian ...

Generated during the initial camera commissioning in June 2025, the discovery stems from the observatory's Virgo First Look ...

ESO astronomers have used the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope to capture an image of NGC 6744. This impressive spiral galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away in the southern ...