When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...
In the ongoing quest to understand dark matter, researchers are now wondering if a strange phenomenon occurring at the heart ...
Astronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale ...
Astronomers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) map detailing the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky ...
The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...
Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...
Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...
Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.
BEIJING -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar ...
"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...
In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and ...
Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.