"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

According to the new DESI numbers, dark energy may be changing over time—either causing the universe’s expansion to ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never ... Closer to home in our own Milky Way galaxy, Spherex will hunt for water and other ingredients ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ...

Astronomers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) map detailing the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky ...