Astronomers have discovered a remarkable new cosmic object using the Hubble Space Telescope: a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...

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A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

New paper led by UC Santa Cruz undergraduate suggests that long-dormant galaxies deemed to be dead may actually be stunted by ...

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

Fallstreak clouds, also known as "hole punch clouds," are captivating sky phenomena that occur when supercooled water in a ...

Llambay. The object known as Cloud 9 is unusual in a universe in which stars tend to signal the location where the matter has ...

Astronomers have identified Cloud 9, a nearby dark matter halo filled with gas but no stars. The discovery supports key predictions about how galaxies form and why some never do.

An international team of astronomers has uncovered multiple evolutionary paths for the universe's most massive galaxies. Observations of ultramassive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion ...