The latest approach has been to use Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), powerful emissions of radio waves that last just a fraction of ...

Astronomers have been baffled for decades by a cosmic deficit: the Milky Way’s calculated entourage of satellite galaxies is ...

The Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens of yet-undetected satellite galaxies. Scientists are using advanced simulations to predict the existence of these invisible structures. Satellite ...

Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, is predicted to account for most of the ...

A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – ...

Modelling suggests that annihilation of this strange, invisible matter helps stars to retain that youthful glow.

Researchers will mine data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will survey the same areas of the sky every ...

Recent studies indicate that there could be as many as 100 galaxies, too dim to be seen with current technological ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how ...

They often twirl around heavier ones, like our Milky Way, as satellite dancers. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way ...

The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.