Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured asteroid 10199 Chariklo occult the star Gaia DR3 6873519665992128512. It was the ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way may actually be the first evidence for an elusive "dark" phenomenon, new ...

The galaxy's vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive ...

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The supermassive black hole is that first one that astronomers ever photographed. For more than a century, astronomers have marveled at the brilliant jet of matter blasting from the heart of the giant ...

While it might have been easy to unleash hate against the man who killed political activist Charlie Kirk, Ginny Richardson, chairwoman of the Mercer County Republican party, counseled a room filled ...

The source of our Milky Way galaxy’s strange wobble has finally been revealed after the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope revealed an enormous wave rippling out from the galactic center.

The Milky Way 's galactic wave was spotted in mapping data from the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Gaia space telescope, which charted the positions and movement patterns of millions of stars with ...

The center of the Milky Way is super bright because it’s packed with a lot of stars and a supermassive black hole. That black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is millions of times bigger than our sun! It ...