Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

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"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

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Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

This most fundamental question was famously posited by none other than Nobel laureate physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals the discovery of the most distant ...

Astronomers have uncovered the most promising evidence yet for the existence of dark stars—giant cosmic objects powered by ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...