A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

The rotating disk galaxy, mostly made up of dark matter, was discovered within a larger cloud of fast-moving hydrogen gas.

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

In recent years, astronomers have been able to study the motion of the stars in the galaxy with outstanding precision. And ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

They are rich in gas and young stars, making them ideal subjects for studying galaxy evolution. Connected by the Magellanic Bridge, a stream of gas, these galaxies are experiencing tidal forces from ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

Scientists have found that our nearest galaxy is undergoing 'gradual destruction' and could change everything that we know ...