The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and ...

Snapshots of colorful galaxies and planets show that the beauty of our universe knows no bounds, and recent images of glowing space gas and dust captured by NASA are no exception. The James Webb Space ...

What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated ...

A vast cosmic explosion left behind an intricate masterpiece in the sky — delicate pink and orange filaments dancing in the wake of a dying star. Captured in breathtaking detail, this celestial ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field ...

Interstellar gas and dust heated by a centuries-old supernova glows in infrared light that was detected by JWST. | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Jacob Jencson (Caltech/IPAC) The spaces between ...

These observations are allowing astronomers to map the true 3D structure of this interstellar dust and gas (known as the interstellar medium) for the first time. "We were pretty shocked to see ...

"The space between the stars is not empty, but rather filled with filaments of dust and gas (known as the interstellar medium), which is often invisible until something illuminates it," NASA ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just have never been able to look inside them before." ...