The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy comprised of a bar-shaped core region surrounded by a flat disk of gas, dust and stars about 120,000 light-years wide.

The galaxy we live in is totally bent out of shape. At least, that’s what the latest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way has to say. By pinpointing the locations of more than 2,400 pulsing ...

A new, incredibly detailed 3D map of the Milky Way has revealed that its central disk is wavy, much like an enormous potato chip.

It turns out that the Milky Way’s disk buckles like a melting Dalí clock. Sometimes it’s hardest to see what’s right in front of your face.

The Milky Way's disk of stars becomes increasingly 'warped' and twisted far away from its center, according to astronomers who have built the first accurate 3D map of Earth's home galaxy.

Conventional wisdom has long held that the Milky Way was a flat disk of stars and gas, with a bulge in the middle. But now astronomers have created a more accurate 3D map of the galaxy and found ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

A new 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy shows the dust that permeates the galaxy in great detail. Astronomers mapped the dust between stars in the Milky Way to create the colorful image, which covers ...

Best Milky Way map yet confirms our galaxy is warped and twisted Six years of study and 206,726 images of the sky brought you this incredible galactic map.

A large-scale 3D map of the Milky Way shows its warped shape with a new level of detail and accuracy. Researchers measured the distances between our sun and 2,400 stars to map their three ...

A new, incredibly detailed 3D map of the Milky Way has revealed that its central disk is wavy, much like an enormous potato chip.