New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth, have published new results from the Breakthrough ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.