One other thing the Gaia data has been clarifying is that the Milky Way's disk is not serene and flat, but warped and ...
Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological scales. This could help to dismiss the possibility of a fifth fundamental force ...
Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.
Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...
Located only 56 million light-years away in Ursa Major, NGC 4102 gives astronomers a nearby target to study how these active ...