It’s still a mystery how life got started on Earth – but maybe it didn’t start on Earth after all. A new Japanese study simulated the gigantic clouds of dust and gas that float around between the ...

Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The results of this survey, called the Star Formation ...

Can the fastest brightening ever recorded in a comet rewrite what we know about interstellar visitors? As Comet 3I/ATLAS ...

Astrophysicists calculate the likelihood that Earth was exposed to cold, harsh interstellar clouds, a phenomenon not previously considered in geologic climate models. Around two million years ago, ...

Astronomers have measured the distribution of mass inside a dark filament in a molecular cloud with an amazing level of detail and to great depth. The measurement is based on a new method that looks ...

Our solar system dwells in a low-density environment called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), filled by a tenuous, million-degree hot gas emitting dominantly in soft X-rays. A team led by scientists at the ...

Berkeley - A bit of Earth-bound chemistry has led scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, to conclude that there is an unsuspected wind of low-energy cosmic ray particles blowing through ...

Chiral universe: chiral molecules discovered in the Milky Way. (Courtesy: Brett A McGuire) Scientists could be one step closer to understanding how life emerged on Earth, now that chiral molecules ...

Astronomers suggest this cold, dense cloud compressed our sun’s protective field between two and three million years ago, leaving the Earth exposed to cosmic material Christian Thorsberg Daily ...

Two astronomers from Greece have managed to model the three-dimensional structure of an interstellar gas cloud, and found that it’s on the order of 10 times more spacious than it originally appeared.

A long time ago, Mars had an atmosphere thick enough to allow running water on its surface. But today these vast gullies — and features that some scientists interpret as ocean shorelines — are ...

Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The results of this survey, called the Star Formation ...