Astronomers report the discovery of a brand-new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy around Andromeda, the closest large galaxy to our ...

A new study suggests that failing to detect dark matter signals in some galaxies may not contradict evidence seen in our own.

In a tiny, faint dwarf galaxy 150,000 light-years away, astronomers have found a star containing just 1/40,000th of the iron ...

By analyzing the data from the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PandAS), European astronomers have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda galaxy. The newfound object, which received the ...

Astronomers have identified a new satellite of the Andromeda galaxy, designated Andromeda XXXVI, making it one of the faintest stellar systems ever detected in the vicinity of our nearest large ...

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A dark matter signal that appears in one place but not another might look like a contradiction. This new study argues it may ...

One of the things astronomers find when they look around at galaxies is a correlation between a galaxy's mass and the mass of its supermassive black hole. Contrary to popular belief, these SMBH don't ...

Dark matter may consist of two particles, explaining why only the Milky Way shows a strange gamma-ray signal while smaller ...

A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar ...

Joseph Shavit The absence of a signal could itself be a signal. This is the idea behind a new study published in the Journal ...