"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways ...

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what you're not seeing? The skies may be full of invisible "boson stars" that are made of an exotic form of matter that does not shine.

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

The discovery of potential dark stars comes from the James Webb Space Telescope, the most advanced observatory ever built for studying the universe’s distant past. Using its powerful infrared ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

A new detector to home in on the mystery of dark matter is getting closer to deployment. At the University of Southampton in the UK, physicists are testing an apparatus that involves levitating ...

The Dark Tower, a cometary globule in Scorpius, is no comet at all—it’s a dense cloud of gas and dust where stars are born. Intense radiation from young stars nearby has sculpted its eerie shape, ...

Hiding 450 light-years away in a dark molecular cloud in the Taurus ... patch of cosmic emission associated with newborn stars. The Hubble Space Telescope was the first to discover HH 30.

The skies may be full of invisible "boson stars" that are made of an exotic form of matter that does not shine. We strongly suspect that the universe is full of dark matter, which makes up around ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic ...

The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million ...