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

A strange glow at the heart of our galaxy might be the long-awaited sign of dark matter, the invisible force believed to ...

Recent astronomical observations have unveiled unexpected patterns in the spins of galaxies throughout the universe, leaving ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

Astronomers have detected a million-solar-mass “blob of darkness” in a distant galaxy, possibly a rare dark matter clump ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast and enigmatic bridge of gas stretching across 185,000 light-years, connecting two distant ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

A group of scientists may have stumbled upon a radical new way to do cosmology. Cosmologists usually determine the composition of the universe by observing as much of it as possible. But these ...

A spacecraft that’s exploring the dark universe has released its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Named Euclid after the ancient Greek “father of geometry,” the satellite was developed by the ...

Using the ALMA telescope in Chile and Einstein's theory of relativity, scientists observed a young galaxy in the early universe that is invisible in nearly every wavelength. When you purchase through ...

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A strangely sedate galaxy in the early universe may upend our ideas about how galaxies form. We think most young galaxies in the early cosmos ought to be chaotic and turbulent, but galaxy SPT-SJ041839 ...