Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

Earth may have cooled during a close encounter with dense star clouds. Interstellar dust from the Orion region might have ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth’s history. A new study ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

"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 ...

An international of team astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust ...