Learn how through a process known as molecular hydrogen cooling, stars may be able to form in dark matter halos under 10 ...

Ethan Nadler, a computational astrophysicist at UC San Diego, may have found an answer. Using analytic predictions from ...

It drives the movements of stars and galaxies, but dark matter is invisible. While it remains a colossal mystery, a study ...

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After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Astronomers studying a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy similar to our Milky Way may have just witnessed how ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules ...