Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...
Three photographers in New Zealand capture rare red sprites, a fleeting lightning phenomenon, while shooting the Milky Way, ...
At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could be the result of dark matter particles colliding, or it might come from ...
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted "seeds of life" molecules around a protostar 160,000 light years from Earth.
By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...
On October 18, 2025, the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at ...
The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...
New AI-enhanced images of Sgr A*, showing that our galaxy's black hole spins rapidly and tilts slightly toward Earth.
A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the theory that dark matter could be the source.
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For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...
Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter, thought to make up more than one-quarter of the ...