Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Scientists have discovered the farthest-ever 'mini-halo,' a sea of charged particles around a distant galaxy cluster that ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

NASA’s latest discovery in the heart of our galaxy is raising more questions than answers. For the first time, a mysterious ...

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

In 2023, another paper argued that the Milky Way and Andromeda are, in effect, already interacting since ancient stars in the Milky Way's halo are about halfway to Andromeda and that a halo of gas ...

That could be why the Milky Way appears warped when viewed from the side. Image Deployment testing of Gaia’s sun shield at Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana, where the mission launched in 2013.

Our little piece of the Universe is contained within a vast shell of dark matter. Though the space between the few isolated stars scattered throughout this largely invisible sphere seems empty, ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic home gives us exclusive insight into its components, but it also hinders ...