In the remote Pilbara desert of Western Australia, a mysterious burning object was discovered on October 18, 2025, sparking ...

A massive, rotating disk galaxy designated DLA0817g and nicknamed the "Wolfe Disk," formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. It was discovered using ALMA, the Atacama Large ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

A new study suggests that Dark Matter — long thought to be completely invisible — might subtly tint light as it passes ...

New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

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

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Late October offers a meteor shower generated by Haley's Comet plus a once in a lifetime comet that streaks by Earth every ...

New AI-enhanced images of Sgr A*, showing that our galaxy's black hole spins rapidly and tilts slightly toward Earth.

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a mysterious glow of gamma rays emanating from near the center of the Milky Way ...

Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...