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 ...

Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.

Astronomers are grappling with a cosmic mystery as they observe a massive ripple, known as “The Great Wave”, sweeping across ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

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

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...