The century-old enigma of dark matter, this invisible substance thought to hold galaxies together, has just received a ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers from West Virginia University and elsewhere have observed two distant ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious emission, known as the Galactic Center Excess, glows in high-energy gamma rays ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The pulsar at the heart of the Crab Nebula is one of many pulsars being monitored by timing ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

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

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

The image, assembled by researchers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), captures the Milky ...

When the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science's biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a global radio telescope project built ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious emission, known as the Galactic Center Excess, glows in high-energy gamma rays ...