Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

The movie is a telling look at the way we live now, when the gap between those struggling to pay the rent and those who are ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), is unlike most of the galaxy. Almost 80 percent of its dense gas is held there, ...

A new study suggests that dark matter could be shaping cosmic chemistry, with a proposed self-annihilating dark matter ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

Now, researchers have discovered a strange energy source at the center of our galaxy that could be linked to a different type ...

BEIJING -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...