In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter ...

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

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

Astronomers have identified a rare odd radio circle — twin rings surrounding a galaxy 7 billion light-years away.

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

A mysterious object with a mass equivalent to 1 million suns has been detected in space, but its nature remains unknown.

Discovery: An international team has discovered a dark object in the distant universe that has one million times the mass of ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

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