New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, is the Milky Way’s largest neighbor — a spiral of a trillion stars moving ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could be the result of dark matter particles colliding, or it might come from ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that galaxies formed in the early universe were more chaotic and ...