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

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

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

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

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted "seeds of life" molecules around a protostar 160,000 light years from Earth.

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

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

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

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

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

A mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's center has reignited debate over dark matter, as scientists weigh whether it ...