Hanging below the vast cosmic heart is a knot of dust and gas known informally as the Fishhead Nebula, thanks to its vaguely ...

In a series of recent discoveries, scientists have uncovered cosmic structures that defy our current understanding of the ...

At the edge of the heliosphere, the solar wind runs up against the interstellar medium, the gas, dust, and radiation in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

The outline of the cosmic simian's mouth and face are sculpted from a colossal cloud of molecular dust located some 500 light ...

A new paper presents a method for distinguishing between different sources of nanohertz gravitational waves. Pulsars may be revealing faint ripples in the fabric of the universe, ultra–low-frequency ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe. It neither emits nor absorbs light, making it invisible ...

The Mad 802 Arts Collective has created a sci-fi exhibit of video projection, installation and drawing that addresses the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 30th launch anniversary with the release of a breathtakingly colorful portrait of two star forming nebulae - collectively nicknamed the "Cosmic Reef" - ...