The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is launching patrons back into outer space. The museum is celebrating its grand ...

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

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

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 ...

The JWST is the largest, most powerful space telescope ever deployed. It sees further into the infrared than any previous ...

Beautifully captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this image shows interstellar gas and dust lit up by a dead star in Cassiopeia.

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A Norwegian jazz musician and citizen scientist, Jon Larsen has figured out how to do something the experts thought was ...

Among the many enigmatic elements of the cosmos space dust stands out as a humble yet fascinating entity. Often overlooked these tiny particles hold secrets about the universe’s origin evolution ...