Deep-sky objects shine and the giant planets show off their satellites as the bright light from the Moon disappears from our ...

MeerKAT radio telescope discovers 49 hidden galaxies in less than three hours, revealing how much of the nearby universe ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

New research explores how dark stars, powered by dark matter, could account for puzzling observations from the early universe ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

What were galaxies like in the early universe? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as ...

Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colour). The dark, low-mass object is located at ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université Paris-Saclay have reopened one of cosmology’s oldest ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.