New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the United States.

Rapper 50 Cent has joined the chorus of people jostled by Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary win this past Tuesday for NYC mayor over former Governor Andrew Cuomo. It has something to do with a ...

OPINION With Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York, voters spoke. Is the Democratic establishment listening? In defeating Andrew Cuomo, he offered his party a path out of its post-presidential ...

The Lakers are signing big man Eric Dixon, who went unselected in the NBA draft, to a two-way contract.

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is only the third to be found on the outskirts of our galaxy's dense central ...