Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

A mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's core has scientists divided. While pulsars were the leading theory, new ...

An international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has shed light on a ...

See amazing views of colliding galaxies NGC 520 and barred galaxy IC 4212 in imagery from the Siena Galaxy Atlas. Credit: ...

No spacecraft would be safe in the wake of a solar storm like the 1859 Carrington Event. Europe has just run its most extreme ...

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

Some astronomers believe the source of the glow to be pulsars — the spinning leftovers of exploded stars — while others point ...

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...

A mysterious glow has been detected in the Milky Way, challenging our understanding of cosmic emissions and hinting at the ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

Scientists recreated the Milky Way’s history using supercomputers to track where dark matter should collect and collide.

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...