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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected water ice as well as frozen forms of carbonyl sulfide, ammonia, methane, and methanol in a dark molecular cloud called Chamaeleon I.

Using the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera at NSF/NOIRLab Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, astronomers have produced a stunning image of the star-forming interstellar cloud Lupus 3.

The protective bubble around the sun retreated dramatically after colliding with a freezing interstellar cloud, leaving much of the solar system exposed to radiation that may have shaped our evolution, a study suggests

In its motion through the Milky Way galaxy, the solar system encounters an average -density (≥330 H atoms cm−3) giant molecular cloud (GMC) approximately every 108 years, a dense (∼2 × 103 H atoms cm...

Cold, dense clouds in the interstellar medium of our Milky Way Galaxy are around four-five orders of magnitude denser than their diffuse counterparts.

The Dark Energy Camera has imaged a ghostly hand claw reaching out to grab a distant galaxy. There's nothing supernatural about this structure known as...

The Gum 3 nebula, which resembles a swimming koi fish, is captured in a stunning new photo from the European Southern Observatory's VLT Survey Telescope.

Scientists have performed laboratory isotopic analysis of PAHs in samples of the asteroid Ryugu that were collected by JAXA's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft as well as in samples of the meteorite Murchison.

Located 13.2 billion light years away, a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang is home to one of the most distant sites of star birth...

Did you see that bright colorful light soaring down from the sky in the Northstate Friday night? It was hard to miss it!This was not a bird, a plane, or an alei

Now it's just floating around in an interstellar cloud.

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Astronomers using the 40-m radio telescope at Yebes Observatory have detected two new complex molecules towards the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1.

A new image of the Flame Nebula shows the interstellar cloud as we've never seen it before.

As our Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters various environments, including dense regions of the interstellar medium.

People across Utah are sharing video of what was a possible meteor over the state.

For three years, telescopes have monitored "one of the most luminous" events ever: a supermassive black hole consuming a gigantic cloud of interstellar gas.

Using new 21-cm radio observations made with NSF's Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered over 250 neutral gaseous clouds being blasted out of the center of our Milky Way Galaxy into interstellar space.

A team of physicists have discovered that the environment of a molecular cloud in interstellar space can support the existence of fatty acids, a key component of life on Earth.