Due to the audio medium of radio, we tend to associate radio waves with sound, but they are a type of light. Just like we can ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

ESA’s Gaia mission has made a major breakthrough in unraveling the formation history of the Milky Way. Instead of forming alone, our galaxy merged with another large galaxy early in its life, around ...

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James ...

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

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

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...

New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. — An astronomer from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with an international team of researchers, have discovered that a neighboring galaxy — the Large ...