The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

Objects like these are sometimes known as "dark nebulae" because they are so dense with gas ... It's possible that our own solar system formed under similar conditions, the researchers wrote. So, in ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

Circinus West is a cold, dense cloud of gas and dust that stretches out for 180 light-years, around 60 times the size of our solar ... for star formation. Despite being a "dark nebula," the ...

Sun was formed in a swirling cloud of dust and gas called the Solar Nebula. In a paper published by Nature Astronomy journal ...

It has even been found in meteorites originating from the formation of the solar nebula about 4.5 billion years ago. Prized as gemstones by some, sphalerite comes in an array of colors.

Some, such as Circinus West, are so dense that light cannot pass through, giving them a dark, mottled appearance and earning them the name dark nebulae ... which our solar system formed, providing ...

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't survived the age of exoplanet discovery.

A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with new views of Mars, nebulas and a galaxy that reminds us of home.