Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive and previously unknown cloud of gas and dust in a quiet corner of our Milky Way galaxy.

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

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

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

New research suggests that the Milky Way may host more satellite galaxies than previously predicted, thanks to advanced ...

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

In A Nutshell New theoretical models predict “dark dwarfs” — objects powered by dark matter annihilation. These cosmic bodies ...

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...