Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...