The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

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

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

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

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...

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

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

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

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

Astronomers from ICRAR, primarily based at Curtin University, have released the most detailed low-frequency radio image of ...