"The Milky Way's satellite population is a unique combination of small satellites containing only older stars, and its two ...

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever ...

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever made has been published after observations by the VISTA telescope over ...

The map consists of 13 years of work totaling 200,000 images, thanks to the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.

In 2013, scientists started the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey to find small galaxies orbiting larger ones, ...

A 13-year survey conducted by the VISTA telescope has resulted in the creation of the most detailed Milky Way map ever. It ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects―the most ...

Since 2012, the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey has studied the regions around 101 galaxies that are similar ...

The map consists of 200,000 images taken over 13 years using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.

New research findings provide us with new insights into the uniqueness of our own Milky Way Galaxy after completing the ...