A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – ...

Modelling suggests that annihilation of this strange, invisible matter helps stars to retain that youthful glow.

Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, is predicted to account for most of the ...

The latest approach has been to use Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), powerful emissions of radio waves that last just a fraction of ...

The Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens of yet-undetected satellite galaxies. Scientists are using advanced simulations to predict the existence of these invisible structures. Satellite ...

Researchers will mine data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will survey the same areas of the sky every ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...

New research from Durham University suggests there could be around 100 hidden galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. These faint ...

Scientists at Durham University in England have identified signs that up to 100 extremely faint galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way. These elusive objects, referred to as orphan ...

Scientists at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, including some from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, broke ...

What if the cosmos’s most violent deaths might shed light on its darkest secrets? NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, ...