Scientists have detected an unusual gamma-ray halo around our Milky Way galaxy. This signal, observed by NASA's Fermi telescope, has a specific energy ...

The Milky Way is glowing in ways it should not, and the usual suspects like stars, dust and black holes cannot fully account ...

The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

The CGM acts as a critical interface between the galaxy and the cosmic web — the filamentary network of matter that forms the ...

Using images and data of the Milky Way halo, pictured, researchers have managed for the first time to "see" dark matter, the mysterious, hard-to-detect particles that serve as the scaffolding of ...

Star clusters are of great importance in any galaxy: they are the birthplace of new stars, often containing massive stars of ...

Explore the debate surrounding a potential dark matter discovery, highlighting skepticism and the need for rigorous ...

Gamma-ray intensity map excluding components other than the halo, spanning approximately 100 degrees in the direction of the Galactic center. The horizontal gray bar in the central region corresponds ...

Gamma-ray intensity map excluding components other than the halo, spanning approximately 100 degrees in the direction of the Galactic center. The horizontal gray bar in the central region corresponds ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter—one of the key missing pieces of our theoretical understanding of the universe. While we have glimpsed the ...