A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some of the most detailed images ever recorded of comets breaking apart in space, offering a direct window into the fragile structure of these ancient icy ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of all matter in the ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.

After launching on Nov 8, 2023, and the sunsetting of NASA TV (NASA's linear channel) in August 2024, NASA+ has become the official destination for all NASA content, whether you are watching on Amazon ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

The bright lights of New York City that shine in the night sky could dim significantly in the not-so-distant future. A bill ...

Using data from the Magellan Clay telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), astronomers have investigated a ...

The vast majority of the astronomy world has spent the past century studying the "cosmic concrete" that holds our galaxy and ...

Astronomers working with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have produced the sharpest wide-area map of dark matter ever ...

A team of astronomers have conducted a study that has lifted the veil on a nearly 100 year mystery that explains an odd dark ...