In the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, there is beauty in chaos. There dense clouds of dust and spindly filaments of cold molecular gas, the basic matter from which stars form, encircle the galaxy’s ...

Scientists using the ALMA telescope have created the most-detailed-ever map of the Milky Way's chaotic center. The observations could open a window to the ancient universe as it appeared shortly after ...

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 ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

Milky Way All Caramel “brings the brand's gooey caramel into the spotlight,” per an announcement shared with PEOPLE Milky Way Milky Way All Caramel hits stores nationally beginning in January 2026 The ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

Well, it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions in this column that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk. But it’s not really flat—not according to any reasonable ...

Astronomers have created a new colorized radio view of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Astronomers in Australia have created the largest and ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky Way. Could dark matter be the answer? Reading time 2 minutes For all the ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an explanation that could also reshape what we know about dark matter. When you ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the heart of our galaxy that could signal unseen matter colliding — or perhaps ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...