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

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

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’ ...

Astrophysicists from Keele University, alongside an international research team supported by NASA, detected large complex ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

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

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

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

Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...