The cosmos has always fascinated us, with its vast expanses and mysteries that are yet to be fully understood. The development of advanced telescope technology has significantly expanded our cosmic ...

Prior observations of M82 were unable to peer through the haze. Here's what James Webb Space Telescope found.

A view of outer space, including numerous stars and interstellar dust clouds. Silicon carbide is a major component of dust grains formed in carbon-rich stars. Scientists have just uncovered key steps ...

A new James Webb telescope snap shows off the glowing gas, sculpted jets and newborn stars lurking within the giant cosmic ...

Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier and fluffier than long assumed, according to an international group of ...

Young star systems are a place of violent collisions between rocks, comets, asteroids and larger objects as the dust and ice of a stellar nebula coalesce into planets and moons. But the largest ...

This story was adapted from a version published by California State University, San Bernadino. Read the original here. A team of researchers, including planetary scientists at CU Boulder, have solved ...

In 2004, astronomers spotted a planet-like object orbiting Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. With further observations, however, it started to look more like a dust cloud—a ...

Forming 50 miles above Earth's surface, noctilucent clouds offer a rare glimpse into one of the least-understood layers of ...

Clouds come in all shapes and sizes, but one of the rarest forms where clouds seemingly shouldn't exist at all: nearly 50 miles above Earth's surface, at the edge of space. "Noctilucent clouds are the ...