Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed low-frequency radio image of the Milky Way ever produced, an enormous patchwork ...

To date, around 300 supernova remnants have been identified in the Milky Way. However, scientists estimate that the galaxy ...

The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the motions and histories of roughly 100 billion stars inside a single digital ...

The best map ever made of the Milky Way is now available online. The Apex Telescope in Chile captured light in sub millimeter wavelengths, and then the European Southern Observatory put them together ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of innumerable stars. But that’s just the visible light. Observing the sky in ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has ...