The CMZ spans almost 700 light years and contains some of the most dense molecular gas in the galaxy. Over the years, ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years. Published today in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkley and ...

Euclid's first data release offers a breathtaking glimpse into our universe, revealing over 26 million galaxies and ...

"We don't know the frequency, so we need to keep tuning and trying different ones, like searching for a good radio station ...

A long-elusive, hypothetical subatomic particle called the axion can be simulated and potentially detected in a type of thin material.

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense ...

“If dark matter is a wave, then it's just oscillating up and down, so the way you try and detect it is you look for that oscillation, just like we looked for the oscillation of the axial quasiparticle ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

A recent astronomical discovery is revolutionizing our understanding of spiral galaxies. A giant spiral galaxy, located ...