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

Just how far can we see on a clear, dark night? If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that the stars overhead lie many trillions of miles ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

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

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

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

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

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

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 ...