Rather than being flat as a Frisbee, the Milky Way’s star-studded disk is twisted and warped, according to a new three-dimensional map of our home galaxy.If viewed from the side, the spiral arms ...

Observing and studying our own galaxy, the Milky Way, can be a bit like trying to take in the view of an entire forest while standing inside it. But instead of trees obscuring the view, it’s gas ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. CNN values your feedback 1.

That study looked at 1,339 Cepheids and created one of the most comprehensive 3D maps of the Milky Way, which showed that our home galaxy is twisted at its edges.

A new analysis of pulsing stars has revealed the Milky Way’s twisted shape. Scientists have known since the 1950s that the spiral-shaped Milky Way’s disk ...

A new map of the Milky Way covers our galaxy's densest regions of star formation, giving us an unprecedented look at the distribution of cold, dense gas from which stars are born.

Astronomers just created a massively detailed Milky Way map with 3.3. billion stars Researchers now have an intricate three-dimensional structural map of billions of objects in our galaxy ...

Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms, ... Instead, the arms represent places of greater-than-average star formation.

By peering into the cosmic dance of stars, a team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP ...

Astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star in a galaxy beyond our own—the first time this has ever been achieved.. The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a ...