"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 ...

New simulations reveal the glow at Milky Way’s heart may come from dark matter, challenging long-held cosmic theories.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...