A mysterious glow at the center of our galaxy has astronomers scratching their heads. The phenomenon, recently analyzed in ...

A breathtaking image has captured the Milky Way stretching over the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, nestled high in the Chilean ...

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

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

"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 ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

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

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

They're important to scientists because they're the chemical precursors to the molecules that build life, such as amino acids ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

To find the universe’s oldest stars, you must look for the ones with low chemical abundances and a retrograde orbit. That’s what a group of students in a class of MIT professor of physics and division ...