We usually think of satellites as small objects orbiting planets or stars. But in the broader universe, galaxies themselves ...

Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo 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.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the solar system closest to ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA ...

Milky Way Linked to Huge Cosmic Structures That Test Modern Cosmology Boundaries, New Study Suggests As humans’ understanding ...

From ghostlike particles, astrophysicists have pieced together a new map of the galaxy we live in. For now, that map of the Milky Way is blurry and incomplete. But as more data is gathered, it ...

The map revealed that the Milky Way is being warped by its stars at distances more than 25,000 light-years from its center. "Our map shows the Milky Way disk is not flat.

NASA’s GUSTO balloon telescope will map part of the Milky Way The first to be funded as part of the Explorers Program, GUSTO will spend at least 55 days floating above Antarctica.

A new solar system has been found in the Milky Way. All 6 planets are perfectly in-sync, astronomers say. November 30, 2023 / 3:17 PM EST / CBS/AP ...

The Milky Way’s stars live mostly in two neighborhoods. Young, hip stars stick together in a thin disk, orbiting as if they’re all sitting on the same flat spinning record.

A Dartmouth-led study identifies potentially more that 300 small galaxies orbiting low-mass systems known as dwarf ...