Ladakh is located within the Himalayas and the Karakoram Range. Its rugged terrain, with high-altitude deserts and sparse ...

Over four gruelling nights, he faced numerous setbacks, including storage issues, battery failures, and timer malfunctions.

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

A short historical outline of the subject is given, commencing with Glydén's discovery in 1871 of the galactic rotation effect in stellar proper motions, and dealing finally with recent research ...

The majority of stars are located in the thin disk of the Milky Way, where our solar system is. These stars follow an organized rotation around the galactic center. The Sun is nearly five billion ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

Despite the apparent mass in the galaxy's disk and center, rotation curve studies reveal most mass resides in the halo, ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

As the engineer-in-charge at the observatory, Angchuk aspires to create a full 24-hour time-lapse seamlessly depicting the ...

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

The idea for the time-lapse originated from a request to create an educational tool that would help students understand Earth ...