The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

Learn how a newly detected gamma-ray halo in the Milky Way could mark the first direct glimpse of dark matter.

Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single star—each orbit, ...

More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...

The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...

Discover the top U.S. spots for stargazing and nocturnal tourism. From Bend to Sedona, find dark-sky destinations, rentals, ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 ...

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 ...