At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

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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 ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

A NASA expert suggests aliens are real, but their technology isn't 'super-science'. Find out the chilling reason their ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighbouring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a ...

The most sensitive, widest-area, low-frequency radio map of the Milky Way has been produced, presenting an image of our galaxy well beyond anything previously achieved at these wavelengths. Combining ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

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Scientists recreated the Milky Way’s history using supercomputers to track where dark matter should collect and collide.

It is well known that the Milky Way rotates around a supermassive black hole, but researchers have found that our galaxy undulates up and down as well like a giant galactic merry-go-round. Katia ...