A mysterious glow at the center of our galaxy has astronomers scratching their heads. The phenomenon, recently analyzed in ...

The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue.

They're important to scientists because they're the chemical precursors to the molecules that build life, such as amino acids ...

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 ...

A breathtaking image has captured the Milky Way stretching over the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, nestled high in the Chilean ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

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

It's a fitting portrait of the facility that will soon transform our understanding of the dynamic universe by capturing ...

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

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

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

Three photographers were able to capture the red sprite phenomenon, when lightning flashes above thunderstorms, in high ...