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 ...

But don’t think of 100,000 Stars as purely educational. Interacting with the map can be meditative as well. The ambient soundtrack for the experiment, provided by Sam Hulick who composed music ...

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 ...

"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 ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has created a three-dimensional map of stars close to the sun that may help astronomers search for alien planets that could host life.