A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe ...

Scientists have detected an unusual gamma-ray halo around our Milky Way galaxy. This signal, observed by NASA's Fermi telescope, has a specific energy ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers, shining in high-energy gamma rays that cannot be explained by ordinary astrophysical processes.

An incredibly rare discovery was made by Japan scientists at the university of Tokyo. The research team suspect that they ...

For nearly a century, dark matter has existed as a powerful idea rather than a directly observed substance, inferred from the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light-speed that stretch out for up to 7.2 million light-years, around 50 times ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter—one of the key missing pieces of our theoretical ...