The ALMA Observatory, one of the world’s most advanced astronomical facilities, has uncovered unprecedented details about the ...

This dim, cone-shaped glow points nearly straight up from the horizon and is caused by sunlight reflecting off copious cosmic dust in the solar system. Hi folks, tune in every week of 2023 for the ...

Located about 2,700 light-years from Earth, the Cone Nebula is one of the seemingly countless stellar objects discovered by William Herschel. You can see ...

No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope ... Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, ...

University of Chicago. (2010, November 24). Making stars: How cosmic dust and gas shape galaxy evolution. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 11 ...

Feast your eyes on Arepo, a computer simulation capable of modeling the birth and evolution of an entire cosmos. It was designed by scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in ...

Was Earth’s evolution shaped by a dying star? A 2.5-million-year-old clue emerges. ... In addition to matter, they also emit other forms of energy, such as light and cosmic radiation.

A controversial astronomer has co-authored a new research paper that suggests our solar system may have passed through a massive cloud of cold interstellar gas 2 million years ago, which could ...

Measuring how far away cosmic objects are is no trivial affair – we can’t move our surveying equipment or lay a tape measure between galaxies. For the best part of a century, the answer has ...

The discovery was made using data from CEERS, or Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science, a JWST program to push back the veil and probe the lives of the oldest, faintest galaxies in the universe ...

Cosmic dust is the indispensable ingredient for making stars and for understanding how primordial diffuse gas clouds assemble themselves into full–blown galaxies. “Formation of galaxies is one of the ...