Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy, but we will never see what it looks like from the outside. It is too big, and we are too deeply inside it. This limitation results in ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make up that glow are quietly telling a more dramatic story, one in which our ...

An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but ...