The Milky Way is our home galaxy, a vast collection of stars, planets, and other celestial objects bound together by gravity. It’s a barred spiral galaxy, which means it has a central bar-shaped ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaar, L. McCallum et al (2025) Astronomers have unveiled the ...

Using “plug in free” X3D technology in Demicron’s WireFusion, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s PlanetQuest web site is providing visitors with a unique opportunity to interactively explore the Milky ...

The wide frequency coverage of GLEAM gave astronomers the first "radio colour" map of the sky, including the galaxy itself.

SPHEREx will map the millions of stars and galaxies visible from our planet in every direction, "like scanning the inside of a globe." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This is part of the first 3D map of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Over 200 thousand objects are included in the map, which was made up of images from a telescope in the Canary Islands that took ...

This week in space we've got some beautiful maps of both the galaxy and NASA's next asteroid target, 16 Psyche. The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to science and there's a planetary ...

Using NASA data, a team at the Space Telescope Science Institute created a 3D tour of the Pillars of Creation. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI It's hard to pick a favorite view of space, but many ...

Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed 3D map ever made of stellar nurseries in our Milky Way galaxy. Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope, astronomers ...

An ambitious NASA mission to map the sky in 3D using a space-based observatory now has a target launch date of late February 2025. Using the sky map, SPHEREx has three scientific goals to achieve.