This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

This new map of the Milky Way contains 10 times more objects than ever before It reveals details of our galaxy's core which ...

The new three dimensional map has been published in the journal Science. The popular picture of the Milky Way as a flat disc is based on the observation of 2.5 million stars out of a possible 2.5 ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Gaia was launched in 2013 to map and characterize more than one billion of the stars in the Milky Way. The researchers used data from the Gaia satellite to accurately date the age of red giant ...

Understanding how the Milky Way was formed is a major goal of galactic archaeology. To achieve this, detailed maps of the ...