Most modern astronomers agree that the sun and its planets condensed from a single great cloud of gas. But they disagree, sometimes sharply, about the details of how it happened—and none of the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the local bubble, which surrounds our solar system. An interstellar cloud of ...

Two research groups design a plasma (an ionized gas) reactor maintained by microwaves that makes it possible to decontaminate waters with high concentrations of dye. Plasma is an ionized gas -- that ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In ...