In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few ...

Astronomers studying a rare Einstein Cross stumbled upon an impossible “fifth image” that shouldn’t exist — and it revealed something extraordinary. Careful analysis showed the strange light pattern ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

An international team of astronomers,  including one from the University of Cape Town (UCT), has spotted a very rare sight in ...

Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the ...

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that astronomers have ever seen ...

This week, researchers discovered so-called "switchbacks" in Earth's magnetic field similar to observations of switchbacks in the sun's magnetic field. Scientists provided more evidence that ancient ...