New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

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

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of ...

For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...

A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS.

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

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

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...