The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

Hints of impossibly bright, massive objects in the infant universe have forced astronomers to rethink how the first cosmic ...

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Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a population of “platypus galaxies” that defy ...

Astronomers describe the discovery of the largest-known stream of super-heated gas in the universe ejecting from a nearby ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

The Standard Model of our universe doesn’t match the evidence, in part because of dark energy, a ghostly force pushing the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a gargantuan black hole that appears to sit almost alone in space, with hardly any stars around it ...

They expect that this dark matter cloud, technically a Reionization-Limited H I Cloud (RELHIC), is a primordial remnant of a ...

A recent study led by Colgate Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie, in collaboration with Jillian Paulin ...