Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth, have published new results from the Breakthrough ...

At the center of the Milky Way, there might lie a pulsar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star that formed from the dead ...

The theory explains the violent dance of stars around the galactic center.

However, there's another point in fermionic dark matter's favor. The Gaia spacecraft's map of the Milky Way – the most ...

Confirming a pulsar star would enable unprecedented tests of General Relativity. Such a discovery would revolutionize physics ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

The best chance for seeing the Milky Way this month will come around Memorial Day weekend in Illinois, according to experts -- and there are a few locations you might want to try viewing from. Milky ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.