Discover Magazine on MSN18h
The Heart of the Milky Way May Host a New Form of Dark Matter
In the ongoing quest to understand dark matter, researchers are now wondering if a strange phenomenon occurring at the heart ...
Space.com on MSN1d
Mysterious phenomenon at the heart of the Milky Way could point to new dark matter suspect. 'We may have been overlooking its subtle chemical effects on the c…
Strange events at the heart of the Milky Way could point toward a new dark suspect that annihilates to influence the ...
Runaway stars reveal hidden black hole in Milky Way's nearest neighbor
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...
New Scientist5d
Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way's galactic centre
A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...
Space on MSN2h
Wispy comet photobombs 'rare' planetary parade above Chile's Atacama Desert (photos)
In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...
Space.com on MSN7h
Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'
"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
Puzzling observation by JWST: Galaxies in the deep universe rotate in the same direction
In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and ...
The Harvard Crimson42m
Researchers Discover Supermassive Black Hole in Neighboring Galaxy
A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...
Maui News1d
Photo of the Day: Milky Way and Haleakala
Today's photo of the day, “Milky Way and Haleakala,” comes to us via Todd Kozan. Send your best photos from Maui County to ...
EurekAlert!1d
Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': U-M astronomers make galactic discovery
The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV—located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the ...
NASA SPHEREx telescope is launched to study universe's origins
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...
Devdiscourse3h
NASA Launches SPHEREx Telescope to Unveil Universe's Origins
NASA launched the SPHEREx telescope to explore the universe's origins and search for water in the Milky Way. The mission, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aims to investigate key elements of cosmology ...