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 ...

NASA’s hard-working James Webb Space Telescope has successfully pierced through interstellar dust to capture 16.5 million stars inside the Cigar Galaxy.

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 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, which bears wood grain-like patterns ...

Physics major Shivank Chadda’s outstanding research project has earned him a Spring 2024 Stephen Halley White Undergraduate Research Award, the highest honor for undergraduates in physics. Established ...

Interstellar dust extinction as a research area investigates the wavelength-dependent attenuation of starlight and other electromagnetic radiation by dust grains in the interstellar medium, with ...

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 ...

Interstellar dust constitutes only a small fraction of the mass in the interstellar medium, yet it exerts a profound influence on astrophysical processes. Grains composed of silicates, carbonaceous ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...