Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Milky Way, seen here in the Uruguayan sky, has a mysterious glow at its center, which could be related to a hidden form of ...

If your eyes were sensitive to every form of light, a rainbow wouldn't end at red and violet. Beyond red you'd see infrared, which we sense as heat, and beyond that the microwaves that cook your food ...

For over a decade, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has mapped a mysterious excess of gamma-ray light in the inner regions of the Milky Way. This unusual glow spans thousands of light-years and ...

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For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious emission, known as the Galactic Center Excess, glows in high-energy gamma rays ...

Astrophysicists have come a step closer to understanding the origin of a faint glow of gamma rays covering the night sky. They found that this light is brighter in regions that contain a lot of matter ...

A new X-ray photo taken by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) showing a cloud of ejected material from a former supernova shows an eerie shape reminiscent of a hand reaching into ...

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars. NASA’s ...