Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The mysterious object, the smallest of its kind ever seen, could help shed ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted objects in the early universe that might be a new kind of star — one powered by dark matter. These “dark stars” are still hypothetical. Their identification ...

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 distant stretch of the universe, more than 10 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have discovered something ...

In the darkness of space that surrounds Earth, a group of small, icy bodies are swarming after being expelled from the farther reaches of the solar system. The mysterious objects, which are not quite ...

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VVV-WIT-08 is a giant star located more than 25,000 light-years away, and is about 100 times larger than the Sun. This would be enough to make it pretty interesting but what makes it unique is that it ...

Astronomers have a new theory about the formation of supermassive black holes. Extremely bright objects that first appeared close to the birth of the universe — theoretical objects called “dark stars” ...

A mysterious object found deep in the cosmos could soon have astronomers rethinking what they know about dark matter. That's according to a team of researchers who turned to a global network of ...