A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

The cloud contains enough dusty material to completely block the visible light from background stars. Particularly dense molecular clouds, like LDN 483, qualify as dark nebulae because of this ...

If you've ever taken a few minutes out of your day to look at old footage and photographs of astronauts bouncing around on the Moon, you may notice a lack of stars in the background. Let's get the ...

Some of the stars appear to be missing in this intriguing new ESO image. But the black gap in this glitteringly beautiful starfield is not really a gap, but rather a region of space clogged with ...

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation supernova, also providing ...

Do dark matter "halos" that make up most of the matter in the universe contain a small number of stars? Astronomers from UCLA, UC Irvine and elsewhere make a case for that in the Oct. 25 issue of ...

The dark matter “halos” — the huge, invisible cocoons of mass that envelop entire galaxies and account for most of the matter in the universe — aren’t completely dark after all but may ...

The three exceptionally cool neutron stars identified are PSR J0205+6449, PSR B2334+61, and CXOU J0852−4617, located within the supernova remnants 3C 58, SNR G114.3+0.3, and SNR Vela Jr ...