When a star is born, it doesn’t emerge in isolation. Instead, it forms inside a large, chaotic cloud of gas and dust. Around it, a flat disk of spinning material takes shape. This protoplanetary disk ...

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.

At just 300 light-years away, it’s one of the closest large gas clouds ever detected near Earth, and takes up as much sky as ...

Climate tech faces $8B in U.S. project cancellations amid policy shifts, while other countries like Canada look to fill the ...

A massive hydrogen cloud near Earth, Eos, was discovered glowing in ultraviolet light - offering new insights into star ...

Hello, Eos! Recently discovered molecular cloud is believed to be one of the largest structures in the sky and among the ...

An enormous glowing cloud that contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas has been discovered near the solar ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...

Asperitas clouds are a distinctive, but relatively rare cloud formation that takes the appearance of rippling waves.

A groundbreaking study,published in March 2025 on the preprint server arXiv, reveals that ultralight dark matter might have ...

One way to avoid the formation of molecular hydrogen is to blast it ... Another possibility is that turbulence within the gas ...

While scientists have a fairly robust understanding of the general processes of cloud formation and precipitation, a key part of this process — related to the formation of ice crystals in clouds and ...