Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a silvery, circular probe in deep space. In May next year, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to capture minuscule ...

The intricate whorls and striations of dust that drift between the stars have just been revealed in stupefying detail. In new images from JWST, we're finally seeing exquisite details of the flow and ...

The proposed observatory will also search for the molecular building blocks of life in deep space.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system. The research, led by a team of Cassini scientists primarily from Europe, is ...

Interstellar space is unforgivingly vast, but the emptiness has some advantages. The lack of atmosphere means there is no aerodynamic drag.

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, potentially helping kickstart biology as we know it. In a recent study ...

Of the many different kinds of stars, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, usually slightly larger and older than our own sun, are known producers of interstellar dust. Dusty AGBs are particularly ...

Two materials physicists at The University of Sydney have found a possible explanation for the huge amount of molecular hydrogen in space. In their study published in the journal Communications ...

Interstellar extinction refers to the attenuation and reddening of starlight as it passes through the diffuse gas and dust of the interstellar medium. Analysis of extinction relies on the construction ...