There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter? Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have yet to fully grasp the Galactic ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence, astronomers say. They ...

For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence for a supermassive black hole. But Dr. Valentina Crespi from the Institute ...

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 29 (Reuters) - South Africa's government has proposed amending its flagship Black empowerment policy to allow white-owned companies to gain points by contributing to a controversial ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image is the sum of 86 observations added together, representing over three million seconds of Chandra observing time. It ...

When it comes to deep melancholic music that somehow landed major public appeal, there are few bleaker songs that cut through all the saccharine positivity of the 90s like Nirvana’s “Something In The ...