The Federal Government has been told to provide a detailed soil map for Nigeria. A professor of Soil Science Abayomi Fasina, who delivered the 37th inaugural lecture of the Ekiti State University ...

The map includes almost 2 billion stars and it helps the agency trace the Milky Way's history. "The new Gaia data promise to be a treasure trove for astronomers," Jos de Bruijne, ESA's Gaia deputy ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

The 3D map — which makes the Milky Way look like an egg-shaped lattice — includes the positions and movements of almost 2 billion stars within our galaxy, according to The Guardian.