Astronomers have detected a mysterious object in our galaxy that emits intense bursts of radio waves and X-rays with remarkable regularity, every 44 minutes. The signals, coming from a source called ...

Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), working with international collaborators, have made a striking discovery involving a previously unknown type of cosmic ...

Astronomers have captured the universe's first confirmed failed galaxy, a starless expanse of dark matter dubbed Cloud-9, orbiting near the spiral galaxy Messier 94. This ghostly structure, holding ...

Dark matter is believed to make up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, but what it actually is remains a mystery. Now, astronomers have found something that gives us a major clue. This ...

A mysterious object found deep in the cosmos could soon have astronomers rethinking what they know about dark matter. That's according to a team of researchers who turned to a global network of ...

JWST spots most distant galaxy ever, pushing the limits of the observable universe The galaxy MoM-z14 could offer clues to ...

“Punctum” may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio ...