At the center of the Milky Way, there might lie a pulsar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star that formed from the dead ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth, have published new results from the Breakthrough ...

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

The object at the Milky Way’s center has long been treated as a settled case: a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* weighing about four million Suns and anchoring the galaxy’s structure. Now ...

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

Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from Germany, France and Sweden show that most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.