Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

Milky Way's chaotic and violent heart has been producing three mysterious signals, which scientists say could be coming from a particular kind of dark matter. Could this hypothetical substance be the ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

Northern Hemisphere skywatchers now have their annual window to observe the Milky Way’s luminous core, a seasonal stretch that runs from March through October but peaks in intensity during the summer ...

Detecting supermassive black holes just before their merger would lead to significant advances in astrophysics. To achieve this, a new innovative approach combines the study of the gravitational ...

Granta MD and publishing director Bella Lacey has acquired world English-language rights to Universal Tide: How Tides Drive ...

Recent media coverage highlights the wide range of research, education, and scientific perspectives emerging from the SETI Institute community. From teacher training programs that connect educators ...

Helen Heaslip of Bainbridge Island will read the play along with Kimberly Kaye and Ken Grantham, both of Port Townsend. The play, which was written by South African playwright Ath ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...

"We are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more massive, spinning faster, and are more astrophysically ...

The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...