The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of merging galaxies II ZW 96. The merger is located 500 million light ...

There is a direct link between Earth's crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way's structure, as ...

In a cosmic twist worthy of sci-fi, new research from Curtin University reveals that Earth’s crust may carry the fingerprints ...

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

The composition of crystals in volcanic rocks changes with their ages in ways that correlate with the Solar System’s ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope, scientists have created the most precise three-dimensional map of star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy. This map will ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...

The infrared map of the Milky Way contains more than 1.5 billion objects. ESO/VVVX SURVEY VIA SWNS. At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, the telescope’s main purpose is to map large sky areas. The ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronaut Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...