Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas.

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers, who have uncovered a massive molecular cloud located just 300 ...

“The instrument is, so to speak, the heart of the solar telescope, which is now finally beating at its final destination,” ...

Despite being 3,400 times the mass of the sun and just 300 light-years away, the hydrogen cloud had gone unnoticed until now.

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

The world's largest solar telescope ... and built at the Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg (Germany). The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen (Germany ...