The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...
The discovery of CDG-2 began when a team of astronomers investigated tight groupings of stars called globular clusters, which ...
The universe is overrun with dark matter, outweighing the ordinary stuff that stars and planets are made of five-to-one. But ...
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...
A galaxy so faint it escaped detection for as long as anyone has been scanning the sky has finally been found. Called CDG-2, this newly identified “ghostly” galaxy may be one of the most dark ...