For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...

The Milky Way, our warped spiral galaxy, spans 120,000 light-years and hosts over 200 billion stars, including our Sun. It's ...

UAH researchers, led by Dr. Chakrabarti, have used pulsars to detect dark matter sub-halos in the Milky Way for the first ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...

According to Xinhua News Agency in Jerusalem (reporters Wang Zhuolun and Lu Yifan), a new study by researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology and other institutions has unveiled the origin of ...

In a breakthrough study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers have discovered a new origin for some of the fastest stars ...

The white dwarfs reach speeds of almost 4x needed to escape the Milky Way’s gravitational pull. Researchers at the ...

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that ...

For astronomers studying dark matter, the Bullet Cluster is one of the greatest laboratories in the universe. Follow-up ...

Astronomers solved the mystery of globular clusters with simulations, revealing their origins and uncovering a new class of ...

Viewing with the aid of 10x50 binoculars will bring the light cast by a stellar cluster into sharper focus, or even allow you ...