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

Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's origins. Scientists at the University of Missouri "looked deep into the universe ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." - T. Müller / A.

A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...

Astronomers have a new explanation for mysterious "little red dots" observed in the early universe: Maybe they're not crowded star clusters that upend everything scientists know about galaxies. Maybe ...