The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere – trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

Astronomers have uncovered a gargantuan black hole that appears to sit almost alone in space, with hardly any stars around it ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...