Researchers suggest that the collapse of these stars could seed supermassive black holes and influence the unusual appearance of early galaxies.

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

This cloud is a window into the dark Universe,” study co-author and Space Telescope Science Institute (STCScl) team member ...

An object spotted in deep space is the strongest candidate yet for a galaxy arrested during early development.

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This study could transform our understanding of the future of the universe and raise the possibility that the universe may ...

The universe is packed with riddles, but few are as stubborn or as fascinating as dark matter. First proposed in 1933 by astronomer Fritz Zwicky, this elusive substance refuses to play by the rules: ...

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

2024 was a big year for space science in many ways, but it may well prove to be the most important year for the universe's most troubling and mysterious "ingredient," dark energy, since its discovery ...