The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue.

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

It's a fitting portrait of the facility that will soon transform our understanding of the dynamic universe by capturing ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

Three photographers were able to capture the red sprite phenomenon, when lightning flashes above thunderstorms, in high ...

By analyzing the data from the HASH database, astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of nearly 1,500 planetary ...