The Milky Way is not the calm, flat starry disk many of us learned about in school. Astronomers are now tracking a colossal, curling disturbance that ripples through our Galaxy’s disk, lifting and ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the third visitor of its kind, has sparked controversy. Explore its hyperbolic orbit, unique ...

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A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...

How can star populations help astronomers re-evaluate the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, also called ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

A team of astronomers say they may have detected dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up over 85 percent of ...

For the first time, scientists have accurately simulated the entire Milky Way, modeling over 100 billion stars with unprecedented detail and speed. This milestone, achieved by a team of researchers at ...

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