Now, a new map of the distances of tens of thousands ... it's sooner than expected Related: James Webb Space Telescope spots 'Sparkler Galaxy' that could host universe's 1st stars The researchers ...

Even though the spiral arms of a galaxy look stunning ... But creating a detailed map of our own Milky Way's arms is much more difficult. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

A new study from the NASA New Horizons mission team at the Southwest Research Institute have resulted in a first-of-its-type map from the Milky Way galaxy in an ultraviolet wavelength, revealing ...

Deciphering the universe’s secrets is partly done through observation, but just as important are solid models of the forces ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14.5 times each day as it images a single, circular strip of the sky. Given ...

From there, the map radiates outwards into space and time, from the present in ... The map depicts 200,000 tiny dots that each represent an entire galaxy, containing billions of stars, planets ...

This week in space we've got some beautiful maps of both the galaxy and NASA's next asteroid target, 16 Psyche. The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to science and there's a planetary ...

A stunning new map of the magnetic fields at ... especially within our own galaxy. "The center of the Milky Way and most of the space between stars is filled with a lot of dust, and this is ...

The Gaia space probe on Monday unveiled its latest discoveries in its quest to map the Milky Way in unprecedented ... "revolutionizes our understanding of the galaxy," the European Space Agency ...

The huge map has already helped changed our view of the galaxy in unexpected ways, according to its creators. In all, it catalogues more than 1.5 billion objects, a vast improvement on previous ...

Before this map was released, scientists theorized that a wall of interstellar hydrogen atoms would accumulate as they reached the edge of our heliosphere — the region of our galaxy where the ...