Astronomers from Cardiff University, UK, have employed the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) ...

In interstellar dust clouds, turbulence must first dissipate before a star can form through gravity. A German-French research team has now discovered that the kinetic energy of the turbulence comes to ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

A vast molecular cloud where stars are formed was recently spotted − unexpectedly close to Earth. The formation, which the team of researchers who discovered it named "Eos" after the Greek goddess of ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The results of this survey, called the Star Formation ...

PD Dr Philipp Girichidis at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy provide insights into our place in the Milky Way and ...

Observations of magnetic fields in interstellar clouds made of gas and dust indicate that these clouds are strongly magnetized, and that magnetic fields influence the formation of stars within them. A ...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are an abundant class of organic molecules in space, playing a significant role in ...

Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

Two million years ago, an encounter with a cold cloud of gas and dust could have caused our planet's "protective giant bubble" to draw back, potentially cooling our planet, new research claims. When ...