It's a fitting portrait of the facility that will soon transform our understanding of the dynamic universe by capturing ...

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

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...

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

New simulations reveal the glow at Milky Way’s heart may come from dark matter, challenging long-held cosmic theories.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

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

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

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

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

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