The time part or all of the dead probe is expected to impact Earth continues to narrow in on Friday overnight into Saturday ...

While the task of fully photographing the cosmos is Sisyphean, the breathtaking beauty of the stars and the knowledge that each pinpoint of light represents a vast galaxy is nothing short of humbling.

It is a map of the prehistoric cosmos According to Dr Rappenglueck, these outlines form a map of the sky with the eyes of the bull, birdman and bird representing the three prominent stars Vega, Deneb ...

The map makes use of 130 million spectra from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to reveal properties of the dust, which clouds the cosmos between our world and just about everything else ...

When the survey is complete, its final map should be the most accurate and largest "cosmic atlas" that humans have ever seen. Scientists expect that process could take six more years.