Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map of the Milky Way ever created, revealing over 1.5 billion objects. This groundbreaking discovery, 13 years in the making, has transformed our ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...

The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million galaxies in stunning detail.

The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the ...

Scientists map frozen water across the Milky Way, revealing vast “interstellar glaciers” that may help seed new planets and ...

A new map of the universe displays for the first time the span of the entire known cosmos with pinpoint accuracy and sweeping beauty. A new map of dark matter in the local universe reveals several ...

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. Researchers used the European Southern ...

Astronomers may have finally put a number on one of our galaxy’s slipperiest questions: where the Milky Way’s physical boundary really ends.

Astronomers have completed the first detailed map of the Vela Supercluster, a colossal structure concealed behind the Milky Way’s dense Zone of Avoidance. Spanning roughly 300 million light-years and ...

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 ...