New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

They slip through your skin, your walls, and the whole Earth without leaving a mark. Neutrinos earn the nickname “ghost ...

At the center of the Milky Way, close to the pull of a supermassive black hole, astronomers have found a strange new radio signal that behaves like a slow, steady clock. This object is more than an ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...