Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

"Interstellar flight requires us to collect and control vast ... As the electron beam passes through the plasma, it sees a magnetic field due to passing by the ions left behind from the space plasma; ...

Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?

Most people hear “spacecraft” and envision rockets blasting into space, but they’re often not aware of the meticulous ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just have never been able to look inside them before." ...

This introduction to the field of interstellar molecules considers the spectroscopic observations which have led to the identification of more than 50 molecules in the interstellar medium. Although it ...

This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star system Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. (Image credit: ESO/Digitized Sky ...