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

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

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

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

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

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

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected a "high-energy neutrino emission from within the Milky Way," according to AAAS.

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...

At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...

Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.