The Dark Energy Camera captured glowing nebulae in the Chamaeleon I star-forming region, illuminating the dense clouds with ...

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

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

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

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

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

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future. By Katrina Miller Stars and planets are born inside swirling clouds of cosmic ...

This cloud is literally glowing in the dark.” According to researchers, the cloud spans about 40 moon-widths across the sky and has a mass about 3,400 times of the sun. It’s located along the edge of ...

Dark matter’s secret identity: WIMPs or axions? Sankarshana Srinivasan, an astrophysicist from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, who was not involved in the research, agrees that ...

To dark matter and dark energy, add dark galaxies — collections of stars so sparse and faint that they are all but invisible. An artist’s depiction of hydrogen gas observed in the galaxy J0613 ...

The strength of dark energy in our universe is not optimized for forming stars, which means other universes might have a greater likelihood of producing life.