The discovery is only one of a handful of enigmatic objects called ORCs that have ever been found. And their origins are ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter, thought to make up more than one-quarter of the ...

In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. located about 3.2 billion light-years away. A ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

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Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a faint but powerful glow of gamma rays shining from the center of our Milky ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way may actually be the first evidence for an elusive "dark" phenomenon, new ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...