Astronomers sometimes stumble upon discoveries that defy common sense. The universe is thought to be about 13.8 billion years old, yet some objects appear to pre-date it. While that sounds impossible, ...

In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever discovered through gravitational lensing. This breakthrough provides significant ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of gravity. The discovery is an important step toward the observation of dark matter ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

Dark matter is believed to make up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, but what it actually is remains a mystery. Now, astronomers have found something that gives us a major clue. This ...

In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found something unexpected. Using infrared images taken from NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact constantly shifting. Satellites, asteroids and interstellar objects pass by.