A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

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Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to know about Cloud-9.

The "Cosmic Grapes" galaxy formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, revealing a never-before-seen structure.

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

This cloud is a window into the dark Universe,” study co-author and Space Telescope Science Institute (STCScl) team member Andrew Fox said in a statement. “We know from theory that most of the mass in ...

The universe continues to surprise those who study it. This week, astronomers announced the discovery of a new kind of cosmic object, something that is very nearly a galaxy, save for one crucial, ...