For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

NASA released a trove of never-before-seen images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, unveiling new characteristics of the ...

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe, with each containing hundreds or even ...

Alligator Alcatraz is causing light pollution in one of the first designated "dark skies" in the eastern United States.

Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling, interactive cosmic panorama with unprecedented detail.

Natasha Hurley-Walker receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Silvia Mantovanini does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky Way. Could dark matter be the answer? Reading time 2 minutes For all the ...

Johns Hopkins researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the ...