Muru and his colleagues set out to revisit the basic assumption that dark matter in the inner galaxy must be spherical. Using high-resolution computer simulations known as the HESTIA suite, which ...

For the first time, scientists have detected complex organic molecules outside our own galaxy, in the ice surrounding a young star, opening new pathways for understanding the chemistry of the universe ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

A new research effort involving simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxies shows that the mysterious, unexplained extra gamma ...

Researchers discovered a hidden 185,000 light-year "bridge" of gas between two distant galaxies, which are also trailed by a ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

Astronomers have utilized ESA's Gaia satellite to identify 87 stellar streams linked with globular clusters in the Milky Way, ...

A team led by a University of Maryland astronomer discovered big complex organic compounds in ices beyond the Milky Way for ...

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole. The ...

A chat with former Halo Wars creator James Miller about his new space 4X, which strikes a careful balance between realism and ...

Using ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have detected 87 stellar streams associated with globular clusters (GCs) in our Milky ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that galaxies formed in the early universe were more chaotic and ...