You’re looking at the cosmic neighborhood of the Milky Way. Travel beyond the dark matter halo into intergalactic space and meet the 59+ dwarf galaxies already orbiting our own. Discover the fate of ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

Niba Audrey Nirmal: Host Emma Dauster: Writer Attabey Rodríguez Benítez: Script Editor Kyle Nackers: Fact Checker Bonnie ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

Physicists using near-absolute-zero detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. A ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

A new study of M31, also known as Andromeda, explains how our cosmic neighbor kills off smaller nearby galaxies.

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery about NGC 6789, an isolated dwarf galaxy located 12 million light-years away in ...