The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

Could the universe’s most elusive substance finally have given away its presence? Nearly a century after the first indirect ...

Learn how a newly detected gamma-ray halo in the Milky Way could mark the first direct glimpse of dark matter.

A team of Japanese astronomers may have detected the first-ever direct signature of dark matter using NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. The team found a unique 20 GeV gamma-ray glow near the ...

The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...

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 ...

In this combination of images from NASA/ESA shows three future scenarios for Milky Way & Andromeda encounter. Top left: Galaxies bypass at 1 million light-year separation. Top right: At 500,000 ...

A galactic filament that stretches across 230 light-years in the Milky Way has suffered from a strange kink that has distorted its magnetic field, appearing as a fracture in a massive bone. New X-ray ...

The planets are out in force through the month, with Venus, Saturn, Mars, and even Mercury all putting in an appearance. Weather permitting, you’ll be able to spot Venus — the brightest planet in our ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...