For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter, thought to make up more than one-quarter of the ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Uncover the mystery of the gamma ray glow at the Milky Way's center. New simulations suggest dark matter collisions could ...

Scientists are attributing the mysterious, diffuse glow at our galaxy's center to dark matter, a phenomenon usually linked ...

The galaxy’s vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space ...

"Because young giant stars and Cepheids move with the wave ... wave motion is visible when our galaxy is observed edge-on. Such vertical motions, represented by arrows, show ripples of movement far ...

The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...

I/ATLAS may have come from the mysterious frontier of the early Milky Way. Scientists tracked its trajectory for millions of years and suggest it could be billions of years old. The comet offers clues ...