This image captures a richly detailed section of the Milky Way, showcasing a tapestry of stars and glowing nebulas. Against a black cosmic backdrop, countless white stars sparkle like scattered ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

The source of the Milky Way's strange wobble has finally been revealed, thanks to new data from the ESA's Gaia Space ...

Scientists can look for patches of this ionized gas to identify where the starry seedbeds reside within the galaxy ... scientists made a 3D map of these regions. Now, anyone can sweep through the ...

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked intensely at this data and found there is a great wave stirring "the motion of ...

A great disturbance. The post The Milky Way has a Colossal Wave Rippling Through It, Astronomers Say appeared first on ...

A colossal wave is rolling through the Milky Way’s stars, mapped by ESA’s Gaia telescope and reshaping our understanding of ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

On this artist impression of the Milky Way, based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope, the location of the new star-formation map is shown. The star-formation region that is mapped ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy’s less sparkly components — gas and dust strewn between stars, known as the interstellar medium.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaar, L. McCallum et al (2025) Astronomers have unveiled the ...