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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Nasa team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed "Cloud-9." Cloud-9 is a ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of astronomical object, calling the strange entity a 'window into the dark universe'. The object known as Cloud-9 is a completely starless, gas-rich cloud of dark ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory spotted the X-ray emissions by chance last year while focusing on a supernova remnant, or the remains of an exploded star. Wang said it was the first time X-rays had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cloud-9, depicted in magenta radio light captured by the Very Large Array, is 14 million light-years from Earth. The dashed circle ...

A team of astronomers are, in a manner of speaking, on cloud nine after discovering a never-before-seen astronomical object in the distant universe. The starless cloud composed of dark matter, ...

This image provided by NASA shows X-rays from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory (represented in blue) that have been combined with infrared data from NASAs retired Spitzer Space Telescope (cyan, light ...