Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

Scientists are investigating enigmatic phenomena observed in the center of our galaxy. Telescopes are detecting mysterious ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to ...

Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have found the reason for the strange deficiency of dark matter in ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

But a smoothly distributed dark matter halo can. Our findings suggest that the centre of the Milky Way may offer new clues about the fundamental nature of dark matter. Future telescopes with ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense ...

In particular, it provides a way to test models involving light dark matter particles, which are difficult to detect using traditional laboratory experiments. Move observations of the Milky Way could ...