From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

The Milky Way is not the calm, flat starry disk many of us learned about in school. Astronomers are now tracking a colossal, curling disturbance that ripples through our Galaxy’s disk, lifting and ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

According to ESA’s reporting on the study, the wave behaves like ripples expanding from a stone dropped into water, though in ...

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried before – through 3D photography that takes years to create.

Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 billion stars individually. Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, ...

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 ...

This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey. (See our AI policy here.) A ribbon of red splotches interspersed with blue dots marks the largest, most detailed image of the ...

Astronomers have created a new colorized radio view of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Astronomers in Australia have created the largest and ...

Natasha Hurley-Walker receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Silvia Mantovanini does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...