Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cloud-9, depicted in magenta radio light captured by the Very Large Array, is 14 million light-years from Earth. The dashed circle ...

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the 570-megapixel Department of Energy–fabricated Dark Energy Camera—one of the most ...

A study published in Science Advances sheds new light on the mysterious origins of free-floating planetary-mass objects (PMOs)—celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets. Led by Dr. Deng ...

Japanese astronomers have discovered a thin atmosphere around a small celestial body beyond Neptune. This trans-Neptunian object is much smaller than what was previously thought possible to sustain an ...

Astronomers may have discovered a previously unknown type of astronomical object, nicknamed “Cloud-9,” that could shed light on dark matter, one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Dark matter ...