A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in ...

A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object—a starless, gas-rich, ...

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

Hubble observations of ‘Cloud-9’ with gas-rich body near Messier 94 offer rare evidence for studying galaxy formation, ...

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

Astronomers will conduct further surveys into Cloud-9 to learn more about dark matter, failed galaxies and the early universe ...

Scientists uncover the universe’s most massive object, glowing yellow, blue, and pink at 100 million °C, while a true inferno ...

Astronomers have spotted the brightest known object in the universe, and it’s a quasar powered by the fastest-growing black hole on record, according to a new study. Initially classified as a star, ...

Space is dark, which makes finding bright things like stars pretty darn easy. It also makes it possible for high-powered telescopes to spot things that are very, very far away, and researchers now ...

Scientists may have glimpsed some of the oldest material in the universe. According to a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, researchers found an unidentified object nearly 13.5 billion light years ...

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A gamma-ray burst from about 13 billion light years away has become the most distant object in the known universe. Edo Berger of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics offers his insight ...