For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

Learn how a newly detected gamma-ray halo in the Milky Way could mark the first direct glimpse of dark matter.

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

James Webb Space Telescope observes mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, revealing flare evolution, synchrotron cooling, and magnetic field measurements.

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

For decades, scientists have only inferred dark matter’s existence through its gravitational pull on galaxies, but may now ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

A successful breakthrough has been created by an international research team led by Japan’s Riken, and it is the most ...

The Milky Way is a self-gravitating system primarily focused on converting interstellar gas into new stars, with the rate of star formation directly related to gas density, consistent with the ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...