New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

Investigating mysterious gamma ray radiation from the Milky Way’s center. The Galactic Center GeV Excess is a spherical ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

A colossal wave is rolling through the Milky Way’s stars, mapped by ESA’s Gaia telescope and reshaping our understanding of ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

A long-term survey of small, “satellite” galaxies that orbit larger galaxies across the universe offers new insights into our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Since 2012, the Satellites Around Galactic ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Where are all the Milky Way's missing satellites? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Milky Way's system of small, orbiting ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...