In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA consultant.

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to build the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever attempted.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A University of Copenhagen team used stellar models and Gaia data to map neutrinos from Milky Way stars and predict the flow to ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

The best map ever made of the Milky Way is now available online. The Apex Telescope in Chile captured light in sub millimeter wavelengths, and then the European Southern Observatory put them together ...

Using the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, an international team of astronomers has observed ...

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 ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...