Greetings, pathetic human readers! LOLtron welcomes you to 2025: The Year of LOLtron! As you all surely recall, your beloved Jude Terror met his permanent demise ...

The qualities and behavior of dark matter, the invisible 'glue' of the universe, continue to be shrouded in mystery. Though galaxies are mostly made of dark matter, understanding how it is distributed ...

To dark matter and dark energy, add dark galaxies — collections of stars so sparse and faint that they are all but invisible. An artist’s depiction of hydrogen gas observed in the galaxy J0613+52, ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy partly hidden by a huge cloud of dust known as a dark nebula. The galaxy IC 4633 still shines brightly and beautifully in the main part of ...

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars. NASA’s ...

An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

The weird 'wobbly disk' of our galaxy might be the result of a tilted halo of the universe’s most mysterious form of matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...