The proposed observatory will also search for the molecular building blocks of life in deep space.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system. The research, led by a team of Cassini scientists primarily from Europe, is ...

Ancient cosmic fingerprint: Researchers found rare isotope iron-60 in Antarctic ice, tracing its origin to ancient supernova explosions. Interstellar cloud clues: Data suggest changes in dust influx ...

Of the many different kinds of stars, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, usually slightly larger and older than our own sun, are known producers of interstellar dust. Dusty AGBs are particularly ...

Astronomers may have found an explanation for one of the biggest mysteries revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): ...

Learn how traces of a rare radioactive element preserved in Antarctic ice may show that the Solar System is currently passing ...

The Pleiades star cluster is slowly tearing a cloud of dust into cosmic tatters, and this new image from the Utah Desert Remote Observatory captured the beautiful destruction in action. For roughly ...

When you think of outer space, you're likely picturing stars, planets and moons. But much of space is filled with clouds of gas, plasma and stardust—known as interstellar clouds.

A vast, frozen fog of interstellar ice has been charted across expanses of the Milky Way, poised to supply water to newborn worlds. That’s significant because, as stars form, some of that ice may get ...