For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

For the first time, astronomers have imaged a star located outside the Milky Way galaxy. The subject, WOH G64, is a red supergiant situated roughly 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists captured the first-ever close-up picture of a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy, ushering in a new era of cosmic study. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) released ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth. Reading time 2 minutes An astronaut recently captured an image of Earth from the ...