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Astronomers have released a spectacular new image of the Milky Way, providing a glimpse of our galaxy in unprecedented detail.

The things we can see with our eyes are just one layer of the richness of the night sky.

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around a star outside our galaxy. This cosmic first hints that the stuff of life may be widespread throughout space.

A new solar system-scaled public sculpture awaits visitors to San Antonio’s Pearsall Park on the southwest side of the city. Artist Doroteo Garza’s Ujuālnān (Grand Sky), commissioned by the City…

The truth is out there.

Perched high in Chile's Andes, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory sees a breathtaking view of the Milky Way's southern arc.

An international collaboration has successfully charted extensive regions of CO-dark molecular gas within Cygnus X, a vibrant star-forming segment of our Milky Way. Utilizing data from the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope…

(NaturalNews) We often imagine our galaxy as a serene, spinning disk of stars, a celestial carousel of light against the black velvet of space. This comforting imag...

The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue.

The merged remnants of stellar pairs may orbit the Milky Way’s central, supermassive black hole.

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an explanation that could also reshape what we know about dark matter.

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?

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples in water, shifts stars up and down in a…

A puzzling glow of gamma rays at the Milky Way’s center may finally be pointing scientists toward dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe. Using supercomputers, researchers recreated the galaxy’s…

Researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter.

While out photographing the dark skies of New Zealand last weekend, the heavens aligned for Dan Zafra as he captured lightning sprites appearing in front of the galactic core of the Milky Way.

Johns Hopkins researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the heart of our galaxy that could signal unseen matter colliding — or perhaps the frantic spin of dying stars. Using…