Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...

Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville say they have made a major breakthrough in the study of dark matter in ...

Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...

A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...

From supermassive black holes to vibrant star clusters and nebulae, check out these 7 mesmerizing cosmic images captured by ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from “fluffy” molecular clouds.

Astronomers believe that our Solar System was formed in the same way, where a large filamentary molecular ... The team set ...