Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission will survey the Milky Way galaxy looking for water ice and other key ingredients for life. In the ...

The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and ...

In the vast expanse of space, where stars are born and planets take shape, one molecule plays a crucial role in interstellar ...

Now, in a new paper appearing in Nature Communications, Michigan State researchers Piotr Piecuch and Marcos Dantus and their groups and collaborators have provided unprecedented insights into the ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

This is a photo of a spider and a fly nebula taken for a total of 20 hours at the end of January in Berkshire, England. The ...

A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 ...

The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of HH 30, a young star in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. This star is ...

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...

Matteo Luisi, assistant professor of physics and director of the planetarium and observatory at Westminster College, has been ...