A recent discovery of a mysterious gas in deep space has left astronomers in a state of shock. This revelation is the latest ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it warped light through gravitational lensing. The invisible mass, about a ...

Much of the universe's regular "baryonic" matter is spread through intergalactic space and in diffuse halos around galaxies, researchers proposed after studying the behavior of fast radio bursts ...

A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, ...

"It was especially cool to add new pieces to the puzzle." Astronomers have cracked the case of a mysterious repeating radio signal that has been a mystery since it was uncovered last year. The team ...

For years, scientists studying the chemistry of space have been puzzled by an odd problem—there simply isn’t as much sulfur floating around as expected. This element, essential for both planets and ...

Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A mysterious reddish object that formed only 90 million years after the Big Bang was observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. If it is a galaxy, ...