A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

RIT researchers have revealed a new view of the Red Spider Nebula, as featured in ‘The Astrophysical Journal’ and by the ...

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

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

For the first time, astronomers have seen life's building blocks in ice beyond the borders of our galaxy. Among a mix of ...

Deep in the heart of our galaxy, there is a faint but powerful glow that has puzzled scientists for more than a decade.

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

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

Astronomers used the James Webb Telescope to detect complex carbon molecules frozen around a young star, ST6, beyond our ...

Scientists recreated the Milky Way’s history using supercomputers to track where dark matter should collect and collide.

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...