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

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a mysterious glow of gamma rays emanating from near the center of the Milky Way ...

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

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

NASA astrophysicist Robin Corbet proposes a theory suggesting the existence of modestly advanced alien civilizations in the Milky Way, according to a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured asteroid 10199 Chariklo occult the star Gaia DR3 6873519665992128512. It was the ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter, thought to make up more than one-quarter of the ...

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

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Scientists say breakthrough could shorten the time needed to map the Milky Way from millennia to less than a decade.