Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of the "stuff" in the universe — about 85%, in fact. That means everything we ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

"This work provides the first detailed measurements of the magnetic fields in the Milky Way's X-ray emitting halo and ...

This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of stars surrounding a galaxy. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

He adds, "This work provides the first detailed measurements of the magnetic fields in the Milky Way's X-ray emitting halo and uncovers new connections between star-forming activities and galactic ...

A new study claims to have discovered about 200 ancient stars in the Milky Way’s halo, the most ... [+] distant of which is more than a million light-years from Earth. That’s almost half the ...

Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams within the galactic halo of the Milky Way. Physicists have ...

This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...

According to a new study, our Milky Way galaxy may have already begun colliding ... Although it was already known that the halo of gas surrounding the stars in a galaxy accounts for about 70% ...

When you point a telescope toward the Pegasus constellation, you can discover a scene where the Milky Way stars and distant ...