There is a mysterious glow coming from the middle of our galaxy – and scientists say it could help solve one of the ...

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

An illustration of the predicted merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda. NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger For decades, astronomers have predicted that, ...

Astronomers have long searched for ways to detectdark matter, the elusive substance believed to make up most of the ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

From the death of the sun to a sudden asteroid impact, there are a number of terrifying ways the world could end. Now, scientists have revealed just how likely one of those doomsday scenarios really ...

New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

For decades, astronomers have said of our Milky Way galaxy is headed for an inevitable, head-on collision with its colossal neighbor, Andromeda, in approximately 4.5 billion years. This collision, ...

The chance that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy may not be as certain as previously thought, according to researchers, who say that a new simulation has found a 50% chance ...

Composite color image of the interacting galaxy cluster El Gordo, showing X-ray light from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue, optical data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The interacting galaxy ...