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

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

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.

“This galaxy was developing bars 2 billion years after the birth of the universe," Daniel Ivanov, a graduate researcher at ...

Somewhere between the stars, far from any sun, a planet is moving quietly through space. There is no orbit to trace and no ...

Scientists have detected a record-breaking radio signal from atomic hydrogen in a very distant galaxy. The galaxy that the signal originated from is believed to have come from a galaxy at redshift z=1 ...

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