Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

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

Johns Hopkins researchers may have identified a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A ...

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

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Learn how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and how astronomers count them.

Greetings! You can see all five visible planets this week, two in the early morning sky and three in the evening sky.

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

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

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

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...