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

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

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

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.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured highly detailed images showing the complex layers of interstellar dust and gas ...

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

The initial findings offer novel perspectives on the relationship between star formation and the evolution of galaxies.

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 revealed new details about interstellar dust and gas using infrared light echoes from a ...

The shockwave Webb studied emerged from Cassiopeia A, now a neutron star, about 11,000 light-years from Earth. After the ...

The hunt for aliens goes hand in hand with the hunt for habitable planets. Astronomers are on the hunt for exoplanets with ...