A black hole is an area in space where gravity’s pull ... To discover more dark secrets of the Milky Way, visit the Hong Kong Space Museum’s free exhibition, “Black Hole: the Information ...

A new study suggests that clues about dark matter may be hidden in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone, where unexplained chemical reactions could be caused by a lighter form of dark matter.

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

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

A bizarre system of stars that is either an ancient cluster or the most dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy ever found is enticing astronomers who hope it could help explain how our Milky Way ...

Dark matter could be an entire dark sector of the universe, with its own particles and forces H ave you ever stood by the sea ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Have you ever seen the Milky Way? What about the Northern Lights? A growing number of people have never seen these features because the skies over them are simply not dark enough. A 2016 study found ...

The galaxy in question also possesses vastly more dark matter than the Milky Way, hinting at a connection between active black holes and the abundance of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

The dark skies area in Nevada is "the largest one on the ... People come to star gaze, take new moon hikes, and see the Milky Way or stars. "We just fell in love with this place, like instantly ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

For decades, the ΛCDM (Lambda Cold Dark Matter) cosmological model has been the cornerstone of our understanding of the ...