How do you find a galaxy that never formed? The standard cosmological model predicts the existence of “failed” galaxies — clumps of dark matter that captured gas but never birthed a star. Because they ...

Far beyond the bright pinwheels and glowing nebulae that dominate space photography, astronomers have finally confirmed something they had only modeled on paper: a galaxy that never quite turned on.

Astronomers have identified a strange new object in deep space, a vast cloud that looks like a galaxy stripped of its stars. Instead of a shining island of suns, this structure is almost entirely dark ...

Astronomers may have discovered a previously unknown type of astronomical object, nicknamed “Cloud-9,” that could shed light on dark matter, one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Dark matter ...

The object is considered a "failed galaxy" from the early universe that did not form stars. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope helped confirm the discovery. The discovery provides a rare opportunity to ...