"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 ...

A NASA astrophysicist has recently proposed a theory that could potentially resolve the long-standing Fermi Paradox. The ...

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

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

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

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 ...

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

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted "seeds of life" molecules around a protostar 160,000 light years from Earth.

A new research effort involving simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxies shows that the mysterious, unexplained extra gamma ...

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

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