Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

The way to find the darkness could be to look for the light. It might be a Zen, but the statement is also the latest proposal ...

New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep ...

Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

In our nearby Universe, no place is messier than our galactic center. Located some 27,000 light-years away, we’ve discovered the most massive black hole within the nearest ~2 million light-years ...

Designated ASKAP J173608.2-321635 and hailing from the direction of the galactic center, the signal flickers on and off at apparently random intervals.

At –29° in declination, our Milky Way’s galactic center — located in Sagittarius — is low for most Northern Hemisphere observers. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

Although the galactic-center cloud is 25 times denser than Orion, only a few stars are being born there, and even then, they are small. In fact, ...