Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in our solar system. However, as with all ninth planet research, the new ...

“This the strongest evidence to date for a biological activity beyond the solar system,” says lead author Nikku Madhusudhan, ...

A new look through decades-old data has unveiled some of the most compelling evidence yet of a hidden ninth planet in the far ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

A California Assembly committee backed away on Wednesday night from a controversial provision in a proposed bill to end solar ...

As NASA’s Voyager probes push into interstellar space, they’ve detected something scientists never expected—mysterious ...