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 ...

The European Space Agency has updated Gaia's 3D star map, making it much richer and more likely to make you feel like a tiny speck of dust in an incredibly vast universe. This updated map includes ...

When you look up at the night sky, do you wonder about what's out there? Most of the stars we can see with the naked eye reside within our own galaxy. And now we know a lot more about them. The ...

There are nearly 2 billion stars in our galaxy. At least that's what the most current map shows. Astronomers have mapped the most extensive atlas of our Milky Way galaxy yet, including the positions ...

Astronomers have developed a new way of measuring cosmic distances by listening to the frequencies of "music" played by vibrating stars that collectively act as a vast orchestra of different cosmic ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from ...

Sep 16, 2025 Fly through Gaia's 3D map of stellar nurseries (w/video) Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from ...