Named for the pioneering astrophysicist Vera C. Rubin, whose work confirmed the existence of dark matter, the Vera C. Rubin ...

The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue.

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

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

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

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

They're important to scientists because they're the chemical precursors to the molecules that build life, such as amino acids ...

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

Three photographers were able to capture the red sprite phenomenon, when lightning flashes above thunderstorms, in high ...

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

By analyzing the data from the HASH database, astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of nearly 1,500 planetary ...