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

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

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

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

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...

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

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected a "high-energy neutrino emission from within the Milky Way," according to AAAS.

The object at the Milky Way’s center has long been treated as a settled case: a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* ...

Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

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