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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

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