Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter. First spotted in 2024, FCC 224 is a dwarf galaxy that boasts a dozen luminous, tightly bound ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

While observing Malin 1 using the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard AstroSat, researchers detected several bright, ...

New research presented at an astronomy meeting shows that active black holes are more common in dwarf galaxies than earlier ...

Among the hundreds of billions of galaxies that stretch across the known universe, even the smallest members can reveal secrets about our cosmic history. But even as we discover new galaxies, ...

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, astronomers are now revealing these distant, dim worlds—some no bigger than a ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China detected an unusual cloud of neutral hydrogen near the spiral galaxy ...

With "Cloud-9", a cosmic object has likely been discovered that has so far only been theoretically described: a small gas cloud with a lot of dark matter.

How do you find a galaxy that never formed? The standard cosmological model predicts the existence of "failed" galaxies - clumps of dark matter that captured gas but never birthed a star. Because they ...

A Dartmouth-led survey identified more than 300 candidate satellite galaxies orbiting low-mass star systems known as dwarf galaxies. Pictured are possible satellites around the dwarf galaxy ESO486-G21 ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter, the elusive stuff that makes up most of the material universe. When you purchase through links on ...