Scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's disc is shining with gamma rays at ultra-high energies Researchers have managed to use the study of gamma rays to peek into the origins of cosmic ...

Sophisticated telescopes have surveyed the Milky Way across the spectrum of light, from radio waves to ultra-high-energy gamma rays. But those are all forms of light.

Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms, ... Scientists spot high-speed galaxy collision 11 billion light-years away: ...

The Milky Way as you've NEVER seen it before: Scientists reveal the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy yet - showing 1.5 billion moons, stars, and planets in unprecedented detail ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date. This ultra-massive system, shaped like a flattened disk, existed just one ...

Three-dimensional maps of the interstellar dust extinction curve within the Milky Way galaxy. Science , 2025; 387 (6739): 1209 DOI: 10.1126/science.ado9787 Cite This Page : ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom: NGC ...

The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many planets. At 1.5 billion objects, the map represents only a small slice of the galaxy.

A Milky Way Twin in the Early Universe Among these new findings is Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy candidate identified to date, seen at a redshift of 5.2 -- just 1 billion years after ...