The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

Harvard professor Avi Loeb has identified ten anomalies in interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, suggesting it could be an extraterrestrial technological product. Its unique trajectory, composition, and ...

Discover how to create a breathtaking Milkyway tumbler using only a monochromatic color palette This easy-to-follow tutorial ...

In a dazzling leap for cosmic cartography, astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have unveiled the most detailed low-frequency radio color image of the Milky ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances dark matter's status as a potential source of the observed gamma ray excess in ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the heart of our galaxy that could signal unseen matter colliding — or perhaps ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for the diffuse glow near the center of the Milky Way—colliding dark matter ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a ...

Researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has ...