A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the ...

The famous carbon allotrope can catalyse the formation of hydrogen molecules in cold interstellar environments ...

Since at least 2016, a rumor has circulated online that "a speck of dust is halfway between the size of" an atom and Earth.

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

Interstellar was a game-changing sci-fi film, yet since it came out, there have been many other genre-defining films.

The models contain three main components: (i) the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) composed of gas and dust, (ii) the large complexes of molecular clouds (MCs) in which new stars are formed and (iii) ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

The scintillation arcs also gave us the velocities of the plasma layers. Far from being as expected, we discovered that one ...

However, he added that "dust particles are typically ten thousand times smaller than a centimeter," making the original claim incorrect. Loeb added: The average size of an interstellar dust ...

“In space no one can hear you scream.” If space were truly empty—an utter vacuum, devoid of any matter—then yes, the Alien ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...