Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a population of “platypus galaxies” that defy ...

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

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

Astronomers found a young galaxy cluster with unexpectedly hot gas, suggesting cosmic structures formed faster than once ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

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

The latest finding offers "a window into the dark universe,” said one of the researchers behind the groundbreaking discovery.

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

Gas within the cluster, which existed merely 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, is at least five times hotter than ...

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Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...