The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the motions and histories of roughly 100 billion stars inside a single digital ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

Researchers at King's College London have found that a peculiar form of dark matter could be behind three baffling signals emanating from the Milky Way's core. The team's findings, published in The ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the universe seems to be expanding faster than expected, throwing a wrench into ...

Astronomers in Leiden have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile to produce a new ...

Scientists in China have developed an AI model that analyzes stellar data from different telescopes, helping astronomers combine survey data.

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) ...

A particular kind of dark matter can explain multiple mysterious signals coming from the centre of our galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...

Billions of stars fill our galaxy that become visible at certain times of year. And in the U.S., that time, known as "Milky ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...