Physicists have begun using the gigantic magnetic fields of galaxy clusters to observe distant black holes in their search for an elusive particle that has stumped scientists for decades. (Nanowerk ...

Scientists have retreated to deep beneath the French Alps to broaden the hunt for dark matter particles that could be "WIMPier than WIMPS." ...

Researchers spotted a colossal cloud of gas and dust in the Milky Way, filled with turbulent motion, newborn star seeds, and even a natural microwave laser. This newly found Midpoint cloud appears to ...

"This is the first time a feature of this scale and size has been found in a local galaxy cluster." Astronomers have spotted two massive galaxies locked in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky. Spectators will have the best luck on cloud-free nights and in locations away from ...