The official Star Wars website has released an updated map of the entire galaxy, including many new places from recent shows and books. This version builds on an earlier map created in 2009 for Star ...

With the help of a three-dimensional map of stars near the sun, astronomers can search for alien planets that might hold life. The map was created by NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope, which ...

"Star maps, even though they show the world above, still reflect a lot of what's going on down below," he said.

This latest addition to Google’s collection of Chrome Experiments is essentially a 3-D map of the 100,000 stars closest to our sun.

A voyaging canoe built to revive the centuries-old tradition of Hawaiian exploration is circumnavigating the globe. Its crew has already traveled 26,000 miles navigating with the sun, stars and waves.

The map may have been intended as a tourists’ souvenir rather than a literal guide to star-stalking. I first heard about this map through Nathan Masters’ Twitter feed.

The newest picture of our galaxy and its neighbours We’re building a map of our galaxy, one star at a time. The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite orbits Earth 1.5 million kilometres away ...