On a cool night in August, more than 100 people gathered in a dark corner on Frisco Main Street. The lights at the Frisco ...

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

The wonders of the universe are on display even in the winter. If you find yourself under dark skies, take a moment to soak up the beauty of the winter Milky Way. It rises to the left of Orion in the ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

Eighty percent of the world's population can't see the Milky Way. Light pollution interferes. Author and adventurer Craig ...

So how many stars are there? Given all of the above, astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains around 100 billion stars, and there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

There is a mysterious glow coming from the middle of our galaxy – and scientists say it could help solve one of the ...