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

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

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

Rare X-ray flash XRT 200515 spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud Scientists suggest a neutron star or magnetar as a possible source Future observations may reveal a new cosmic phenomenon ...

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

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...

Stars emerge from vast regions of gas and dust known as molecular clouds. These stellar nurseries, often spanning hundreds of ...

A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by ...

Dominant cosmological theories posit that stars are formed in molecular clouds that are sufficiently large and dense that it ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...