New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

When the astronomer first saw the image she was 'excited', but then an entirely new feeling took over. Find out more.

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

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

A mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's core has scientists divided. While pulsars were the leading theory, new ...