New measurements from deep-sky surveys reveal a huge structure pushing into the Milky Way’s outer regions, distorting stars ...

A Japanese scientist thinks he has observed dark matter at the centre of the Milky Way. He says the halo in the galaxy is a ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter.

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our galaxy, but more information is needed to confirm the result.

The Earth's planetary defenses will observe an interstellar comet flying through the Solar System, the United Nations has ...

Maine keeps Mt. Blue State Park as its secret stress-relief therapy – a place where mountain views, pristine waters, and forest trails combine into the perfect natural prescription for modern life’s ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...