Just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex, and in particular its dark cloud Chamaeleon I, is a hotbed of young, ...

Dark matter "lampshades" could slip between Earth and distant stars, causing tiny amounts of dimming that may help explain ...

A breathtaking new image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) captures the star-forming region of Chamaeleon I, a site that ...

Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have ...

By Katrina Miller Stars and planets are born inside ... And “it is literally glowing in the dark,” she added. Identifying and studying clouds like Eos, particularly based on their hydrogen ...

A new image taken by the powerful Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has revealed a breathtaking view of one of the closest ...

Scientists have discovered a potentially star-forming cloud and called it "Eos ... This cloud is literally glowing in the dark.” According to researchers, the cloud spans about 40 moon-widths across ...

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...

This is because dark matter hardly interacts with anything as far as ... Over millions of years, axions will therefore accumulate around neutron stars, forming a cloud dense enough to give off ...

Dark energy is the mysterious force that ... each containing no marbles at all. Star formation occurs when huge clouds of gas collapse; galaxies form inside massive haloes of this star-forming ...

The galaxies are swaddled in clouds of so-called dark matter, which outweighs the ordinary atomic matter that we and stars are made of by 6 to 1. Nobody knows what dark matter is, but its gravity ...