New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

A mysterious object with a mass equivalent to 1 million suns has been detected in space, but its nature remains unknown.

JWST might have spotted the 'smoking gun' of a hypothetical object called a dark star in the distant Universe.

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

ORCs are vast, faint rings of radio energy that surround galaxies and can be detected only in radio wavelengths of the ...

With the aid of a multinational network of telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

Cosmologists can now explore data faster than ever before with a new emulator. As astronomers continue to uncover the mysteries of the universe, their work generates increasingly vast and intricate ...