Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

A series of high-resolution simulations has revealed a striking new perspective on theMilky Way’s position in the cosmos. Far ...

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) ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence that the Milky Way is not drifting through space alone but is embedded in a vast, flat structure of dark matter stretching tens of millions of light-years. The ...

The discovery reinforces established theories about space. There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers. As many as ...

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—that dwarf galaxy ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...

Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...