Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers most stars, so they cool and fade over time. But if they ...

A new study has proposed the existence of a new type of cosmic object that could be hiding at the centre of our galaxy. This ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

Scientists have proposed Earth is in the middle of a huge void in space, potentially resolving the cosmic mystery known as ...

Dark matter is one of Nature’s most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it’s real because its mass ...

Dark dwarfs, stars composed of dark matter, may be the optimal objects in which to finally discover physical dark matter in the real world.

Dark dwarfs, celestial objects potentially hidden in our galaxy's center, may provide crucial insights into the enigmatic ...

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy—which could help scientists unlock new answers about one of the biggest mysteries in the ...

“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

A new kind of cosmic object could help solve one of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark matter.Particle Astrophysicists have proposed the ...