With the help of ESA's Gaia mission, the goal of which was to create the most accurate 3D map of the Milky Way, scientists study the structures in remote and less explored regions of our galaxy. One ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...