One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in ...

"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 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have captured the most detailed look yet at how galaxies formed just ...

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

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

But it is also, with some exceptions, more historically correct than other similar books ... (remnant light from the early Universe) disagree with equally reliable findings from astronomical ...

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller, or dwarf, galaxy.