The universe is overrun with dark matter, outweighing the ordinary stuff that stars and planets are made of five-to-one. But ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have detected a ghostly galaxy that is almost completely made of dark matter. The faint object was revealed by just four globular star clusters hiding in the Perseus cluster.

The discovery of CDG-2 began when a team of astronomers investigated tight groupings of stars called globular clusters, which ...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

The Triangulum Galaxy, the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. When you purchase through links on our ...

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