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New mapping of the Milky Way has uncovered a vast family tree of stellar siblings, revealing that hundreds of star clusters ...

According to ESA’s reporting on the study, the wave behaves like ripples expanding from a stone dropped into water, though in ...

Astronomers have long believed that the region around the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is one of the most ...

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 ...

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've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the ...

Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 pairs of star clusters in our Milky Way—cosmic siblings that were born together or ...

His analysis points to a possible signal from hypothetical particles known as weakly interacting massive particles. These particles, often called wimps, are a leading candidate for dark matter. They ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

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

A groundbreaking simulation has recreated the Milky Way in astonishing detail. Discover how it’s changing science forever.