Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could be the result of dark matter particles colliding, or it might come from ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, is the Milky Way’s largest neighbor — a spiral of a trillion stars moving ...

Three photographers in New Zealand capture rare red sprites, a fleeting lightning phenomenon, while shooting the Milky Way, ...

A new study suggests that a mysterious gamma-ray glow near the Milky Way's centre could be the first proof of dark matter's existence.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have captured the most detailed look yet at how galaxies formed just ...

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, finding that galaxies ...

Astronomers note that such comets are remnants of the early solar system, containing pristine material billions of years old.

The study notes that if excess gamma light is not from dying stars, it could become the first proof that dark matter exists.

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...