The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue.

A mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's core has scientists divided. While pulsars were the leading theory, new ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

They're important to scientists because they're the chemical precursors to the molecules that build life, such as amino acids ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

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

It's a fitting portrait of the facility that will soon transform our understanding of the dynamic universe by capturing ...

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

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