Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old as time itself.

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” ...

Anna Y. Q. Ho, assistant professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the 2026 Newton Lacy ...

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9." ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

Astronomers have finally confirmed the existence of RELHICs—a long-theorized class of dark, starless clouds from the early ...

Although scientists have long predicted the existence of these elusive objects, confirmation only came after Hubble observations showed the cloud to be completely star-free.

When astronomers first spotted a faint, fast-moving object racing through the outer Solar System in mid-2025, few expected it ...