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

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 ...

From Earth, giant elliptical galaxies resemble highly symmetric blobs, but what's their real 3D structure? Astronomers have assembled one of the first 3D views of a giant elliptical galaxy, M87, whose ...

We live on a small rocky planet that orbits a yellow dwarf star located about halfway down a minor arm of the Milky Way galaxy — a mass of hundreds of millions of stars that forms a spiral that ...