From a great distance, our galaxy would look like a thin disk of stars that orbit once every few hundred million years around its central region, where hundreds of billions of stars provide the ...

Cosmic cartographers are starting work on the biggest 3D map of the universe so far. It should reveal an undulating landscape sculpted by the big bang, and might give us a clue to the underlying shape ...

Conventional wisdom has long held that the Milky Way was more or less a flat disk of stars and gas, with a bulge in the middle. But now astronomers from Macquarie University and the Chinese Academy of ...

Scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s most mysterious component: dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for 27% of the universe’s total mass. Using ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --Researchers in Australia and China have for the first time unveiled an accurate 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy. Their mapping efforts revealed the warped nature of the galaxy's far ...

The Milky Way’s disk of stars is ‘warped’ and twisted, according to scientists who have built the first accurate 3D map of Earth’s home galaxy. Researchers from the Macquarie University in Australia ...

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. Astronomers ...