Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

A strange, starless object is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies are born. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA scientists have identified a massive cloud of dark matter and gas that looks ...

In the vast silence of intergalactic space, some structures remain hidden not because of their distance, but because they emit no light at all. They are not stars, and they are not galaxies in the ...

Astronomers used gravitational lensing to detect a supernova 10 billion light-years away, providing spatially separated images that help study cosmic expansion and early Universe events.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation.

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers say they have identified a new type of astronomical object that challenges traditional ideas about how galaxies form.

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark matter halo that may be the first-confirmed failed galaxy.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a trio of young stars in the process of becoming their best selves in the ...

The researchers describe Cloud-9 as a failed galaxy, a "relic" or remnant of the processes that gave rise to early galaxies. Alejandro Benitez-Llambay suggested that the ...