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 ...

While astronomers expect many supernova remnants remain to be discovered, the fact that Teleios was spotted at all “is pure luck,” Filipović says. Had it been located closer to the galactic plane, ...

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Research on heliospheric physics and interstellar medium dynamics has advanced our understanding of the complex interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar environment. The heliosphere ...

This stunning 527-megapixel composite reveals both visible and infrared views of young stars, ionized gas, and dust filaments ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare glimpse at the gaseous "shrouds" that surround dying stars before they go ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays originating from a nova.

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Tributes have been paid to a "towering figure in British astronomy" who has died aged 102. Sir Francis Graham-Smith was believed to be the world's oldest active radio astronomer, according to Jodrell ...

The Owl Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula — a type of object that yields glimpses of stellar death in slow motion.

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...