Learn how a newly detected gamma-ray halo in the Milky Way could mark the first direct glimpse of dark matter.

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

Greetings everyone! We’ve lost three of the five visible planets to the sun’s glare with only Jupiter remaining in the ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the universe's matter, remains invisible to modern instruments. However, a new ...

More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...

A successful breakthrough has been created by an international research team led by Japan’s Riken, and it is the most ...

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has potentially captured the first direct evidence of dark matter, as gamma rays from the center of the Milky ...