Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter, thought to make up more than one-quarter of the ...

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing ...

Using the James Webb telescope, astronomers estimate the number of galaxies in the universe to be roughly two trillion (2,000,000,000,000). This is about 10 times as many as previously thought ...

Join in for live views of our nearby galactic neighborhood from the dark skies at McDonald Observatory.

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

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

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a faint but powerful glow of gamma rays shining from the center of our Milky ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way may actually be the first evidence for an elusive "dark" phenomenon, new ...

New research finds dark matter in the Milky Way is unevenly distributed, supporting its role as a possible source of the galaxy's central gamma ray excess.

A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.

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