The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

As Axiom-4 re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, the SpaceX Dragon capsule undergoes a brief 6-minute communication blackout due to intense heat and plasma buildup.

The whole picture doesn’t become clear until you combine Webb data with Hubble data,” stated Rogier Windhorst, Regents Professor at Arizona State University, captioning a revolution in cosmic vision.

Plasma is an ionized gas—that is, a gas containing electrons, ions, atoms, molecules, radicals, and photons. It is often called the fourth state of matter, and surprisingly, it permeates everything.

A Reservoir of Ionized Gas in the Galactic Halo to Sustain Star Formation in the Milky Way. Science , 25 August 2011 DOI: 10.1126/science.1209069 Cite This Page : ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

A new 527-megapixel image captures two open star clusters, NGC 456 and NGC 460, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. The image uses ...