Astronomers have detected a ghostly galaxy that is almost completely made of dark matter. The faint object was revealed by just four globular star clusters hiding in the Perseus cluster.

A strange, starless object is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies are born. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA scientists have identified a massive cloud of dark matter and gas that looks ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter. Dark matter, the invisible substance astronomers believe dominates the universe, provides the ...

A team of astronomers has identified an extremely faint galaxy called CDG-2, located roughly 300 million light-years from Earth, where an estimated 99% of its total mass is made of invisible dark ...

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 ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter was sitting 300 million light-years away, unnoticed until astronomers applied a detection technique never before used for galaxy discovery. The find could ...

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Galaxies are far more than the sum of their stars. Long before stars even formed, dark matter clumped up and drew regular matter together with its gravity, providing the invisible scaffolding upon ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter, the elusive stuff that makes up most of the material universe. When you purchase through links on ...

You know that feeling when you find something hiding right where you’ve been looking all along? Astronomers just had that moment on a cosmic scale. A galaxy so faint, so nearly invisible that no one ...