Stars don't form out of nothing, but tracking the gas and dust that do eventually form stars is hard. They float around the ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

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.

In brilliant new images, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare glimpse at the gaseous "shrouds" that surround ...

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NASA's twin Voyager probes have embarked on the longest journey in human history, venturing far beyond the planets to explore the mysterious realm of interstellar space. And as they push deeper into ...

Astronomers have confirmed the presence of a new interstellar object hurtling through our solar system, on a trajectory that brings it closer to the Sun than any interstellar visitor before it. The ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important processes like star formation, cosmic-ray movement, and materials mixing in ...

An international team of astronomers has managed to peer into the first billion years of the cosmos thanks to the Atacama ...

In the case of Voyager 1, it’s been picking up the faint hum of plasma waves in the interstellar medium. The plasma that Voyager 1 is encountering was produced by our Sun, the researchers say.