"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 mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's core has scientists divided. While pulsars were the leading theory, new ...

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

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

Scientists have detected complex organic ices around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, marking the first such ...

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 ...

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 ...

An MIT astronomy class has found three of the oldest stars in the universe lurking right outside the Milky Way. The stars, about 30,000 light-years from Earth, are in the galaxy's "halo," the cloud 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 ...

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, ...

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