Scientists recreated the Milky Way’s history using supercomputers to track where dark matter should collect and collide.

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

Astrophysicists have discovered five different carbon-based compounds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, marking a first in ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

Three photographers in New Zealand capture rare red sprites, a fleeting lightning phenomenon, while shooting the Milky Way, ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers have found complex organic ice outside the Milky Way for the first time. The discovery shows that the building blocks of life could arise ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of the first known rogue black hole wandering through our galaxy, a discovery that ...

Scientists are attributing the mysterious, diffuse glow at our galaxy's center to dark matter, a phenomenon usually linked ...

The paper's "Less Terrifying" reference is in relation to a comment from sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke, who is said to have ...