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

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

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

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

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

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

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million individual X-ray light detections collected through 2021. The latest examples from ...

Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...

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

It is well known that the Milky Way rotates around a supermassive black hole, but researchers have found that our galaxy undulates up and down as well like a giant galactic merry-go-round. Katia ...

Most of the universe is slipping away from the Milky Way, carried outward as space itself expands. Yet one giant neighbor is bucking the trend, racing straight at us while almost every other major ...