For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

A stronomers from the Australian National University (ANU) have unveiled a ground-breaking discovery of binary stars in the ...

Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars. "Milky Way season," when the galaxy's ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Dark matter—an unseen substance thought to make up 27 percent of the universe—is one of space science’s great mysteries. It does not reflect or emit any light, so spotting it is difficult. But a new ...