"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

Though space is chock-full of interstellar medium, it tends to be invisible unless lit up by a celestial spotlight. Sometimes ...

A light echo is created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into surrounding clumps of dust and causing them to shine in an ever-expanding pattern.

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

Learn about the thermal light echo, observed by NASA, that causes intricate layers of interstellar gas and dust to emit an ...

Shocks, cosmic rays and x-rays seem to ionise and fragment saturated molecules via mechanisms that result in structures with ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing ...

This groundbreaking observation has enabled astronomers to create accurate 3D maps of the interstellar medium for the first time. The initial findings offer novel perspectives on the relationship ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has provided high-resolution images revealing the 3D structure of interstellar dust and gas ...