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 ...

The Milky Way appears as a red band in the half-sky view. Analyzing this cosmic microwave background in high ... enabling space to become transparent. This faint afterglow marks the first ...

the Milky Way, partially reducing the extragalactic background light absorption to a level that explains the LHAASO detection ...

At that time, our universe emitted the cosmic microwave background as it emerged from its intensely ... "We can see right back through cosmic history — from our own Milky Way, out past distant ...

and the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft study the cosmic microwave background. Missions like the Gaia Project seek to map the three-dimensional structure of the Milky Way and even the ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy, dust and gases constantly churn as energetic shock waves ...

The new image is an up-close view of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest ...

An image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array puts the James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the Sagittarius C region in context. The MeerKAT image spans 1,000 light ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...