Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab ...

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

This stunning image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg Nebula, sculpted by freshly ejected stardust. Located approximately 1,000 light-years ...

The broadest planned survey by NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will reveal hundreds of millions of galaxies scattered across the ...

Cosmic rays inside a dense molecular cloud were measured for the first time, helping scientists better understand how stars begin forming.

We often blame our stars for the relationships that do not go as planned. Instead of enriching our lives, some connections ...

Astronomers have flagged a tantalizing candidate for a frozen twin of Earth, a world known as HD 137010 b that appears to circle a Sun-like star about 146 light-years away. The planet seems to be ...

Tennyson was prolific, prodigious. He rumbled with poetry; he recited it endlessly; it poured off him on long walks. Language ...

The theory explains the violent dance of stars around the galactic center.

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals for the first time the delicate interplay of cosmic dust and stellar winds in the Egg Nebula, a bipolar protoplanetary nebula within the ...

Qiong Li's research on JADES-ID1 offers new perspectives on the formation of galaxy clusters, challenging traditional views ...

Relatedly, astronomers may have just pushed the upper size limit of what counts as a planet.