The universe is vast and mysterious, with over 85% of its mass composed of an invisible substance known as dark matter.

Learn how through a process known as molecular hydrogen cooling, stars may be able to form in dark matter halos under 10 million solar masses.

Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo. Stars are formed when gravity within dark matter halos draws in gas, but astrophysicists don't know whether star-free dark matter ...

Ethan Nadler, a computational astrophysicist at UC San Diego, may have found an answer. Using analytic predictions from ...