Cats are a cosmic mystery, creatures of stardust and moonlight. We may not be able to solve their endless ineffability, but ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about ...

The fact that this carbon dust can potentially survive for centuries could change how we think about the building blocks of new stars.

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

I stand with the Superman who picks chaotic humanity over cosmic domination, the one who carries every scar as proof of love, the one who rises without crushing what lies beneath him. James Gunn ...

A growing body of research suggests that cosmic dust, originating from asteroid collisions and comet disintegration, may have played a crucial role in sparking the formation of life on Earth. This new ...

Cosmic dust does far more than float through space. It's the raw material from which stars, planets and possibly even life ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...