On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

An ultra-fast flash from the galaxy M82 reveals what may have been a rare "extragalactic magnetar giant flare." ...

A mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's center has reignited debate over dark matter, as scientists weigh whether it ...

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

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

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is ...

Considering the immense size of the universe, it's no surprise that space still holds plenty of secrets for us. Recently, ...

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

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.

Astronomers recorded the longest gamma-ray burst in history, GRB 250702B, that may be a cosmic event completely new to ...

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

Dark matter is a fundamental hypothesis when it comes to our understanding of the universe, but it remains a hypothesis. We ...