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. Sure, humans have looked to the stars for millennia, but it's still difficult to ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space Agency’s ...

The first data sets were released in 2017, and with the latest update, the star map covers 6.5% of the sky and 130 degrees. That's 13,000 times the angular area of the full moon when viewed from ...

Viewers poring over the map could try to match the stars’ faces to the cartoons. (For the curious: Big Map Blog put together a list of all of the stars on this map in clockwise order, with links ...