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.

Cloud-9 was first discovered about three years ago by a telescope located in Guizhou, China. However, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) wasn't able to exactly identify it for ...

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 ...