Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

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 ...

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

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could be the result of dark matter particles colliding, or it might come from ...

Radio astronomy opens a window onto the invisible universe. While our eyes can detect visible light, countless objects in ...

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

Investigating mysterious gamma ray radiation from the Milky Way’s center. The Galactic Center GeV Excess is a spherical ...

More gamma radiation than predicted is coming from the center of the Milky Way. According to simulations, dark matter has ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...