Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

Southwest Research Institute has delivered the novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument for final ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest ...

The interstellar medium (or ISM) is the name astronomers give to the tenuous gas and dust that pervade interstellar space. Whilst the ISM refers to the matter (interstellar matter, also ...

An international team of astronomers has employed various satellites and ground-based telescopes to perform multiwavelength ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

The Milky Way's interstellar medium—that is, the dust and gas that threads between our galaxy's billions of stars—is an abundant yet elusive material.

The Voyager probes we sent from Earth back in the 70s found an incredible 'wall of fire' at the edge of our solar system ...

Interstellar space is not empty but filled with gas, dust and energetic particles. We explore this cosmic medium in more detail here.

NASA has revealed that they have sent a man-made machine further than they ever have before, and they said they made an odd ...

‘Oumuamua became the first observed interstellar object to zip through our solar system in 2017. Now, researchers think they have uncovered a simple solution for what propelled the comet during ...

Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have investigated the galaxy NGC 7793, searching ...