The aforementioned models of the cosmos, including the standard model of cosmology, have long posited the idea that the ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a peculiar merger of two similar ring galaxies that ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...

Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, ...

Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors. The dazzling ...

Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, revealing hundreds of previously unseen celestial ...

The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

UC Berkeley astronomers found a hidden black hole roaming far from the galaxy’s core. It may eventually merge with the ...

Astronomers have created the most detailed image of a galaxy of its kind ever seen. The “incredibly detailed” picture shows ...