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

How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand 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.

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

Their intense red color and flattened shape puzzle scientists. Researchers analyzed 56 of these galaxies through the JADES ...

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) ...

A recent study from France found that the chemical basis for life can form in interstellar ice, expanding on a cutting-edge ...

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 ...